E-Learning Best Practices In Health Care

In health care study programmes the importance of e-learning is increasing. This teaching and learning approach is nowadays included in different health care curricula. In this paper some e-learning best practices in health care, which were validated in our previous projects/studies, are presented: e-learning contents for the development of critical thinking, inclusion of the health care students in the development of e-contents, and evaluation and comparison of e-learning and traditional pedagogical elements value by health care students and teachers. Our experience show that properly developed e-contents, which vividly presents situation from the clinical practice and promote students' reflection are a prerequisite for the successful e-learning promotion in health care educational institutions. The students' participation in the cocreation of e-learning environment makes it more student-oriented and has several positive effects on entire e-learning courses. Finally, the continuous evaluation and comparison of e-learning and traditional pedagogical elements value helps the management to identify whether previous e-learning initiatives and activities were successful. Best practices, presented in this paper, represents an evidence that the use of modern information and communication technologies should be considered in the future as a serious requisite in health care study programmes.