BACKGROUND Medical education is increasingly being conducted in community-based teaching sites at diverse locations, making it difficult to provide a consistent curriculum. We conducted a randomized trial to assess whether students who viewed digital lectures would perform as well on a measure of cognitive knowledge as students who viewed live lectures. Students' perceptions of the digital lect...

This is a draft of the lecture notes for my four lectures at the Park City Math Institute, Utah 2011. The lectures form a continuation of Nathalie Wahl’s lectures, and I refer to her lectures for context and motivation. My goal for the lectures will be to give a precise statement of the MadsenWeiss theorem and give (most of) a proof. The theorem was first proved by Madsen and Weiss in [4]. The ...

To what extent a blended learning configuration of face-to-face lectures, online on-demand video recordings of the face-to-face lectures and the offering of online quizzes with appropriate feedback has an additional positive impact on the performance of these students compared to the traditional face-toface course approach? In a between-subjects design in which students were randomly assigned t...