Abstract:
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 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 future as a serious requisite in health care study programs.
