Web-based learning: pros, cons and controversies
Web-based learning: pros, cons and controversies
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DOI：
10.7861/clinmedicine.7-1-37
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Cook, David A.
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作者：
Cook, David A.
医学教育中基于网络的学习的优点包括克服距离和时间的障碍、规模经济和新颖的教学方法，而缺点包括社会隔离、前期成本和技术问题。基于网络的学习据称是为了促进个性化教学，但目前这更多的是愿景，而不是现实。更重要的是，许多WBL教学设计未能纳入有效学习的原则，并且WBL经常被用于错误的原因(例如，为了技术)。与其试图决定WBL是否优于或等同于其他教学媒体(解决这个问题的研究总是会令人困惑)，我们应该接受它作为一种潜在的强大的教学工具，并专注于学习何时以及如何使用它。教育工作者应该认识到，高保真、多媒体、模拟，甚至WBL本身并不总是有效地促进学习所必需的。
Advantages of web-based learning (WBL) in medical education include overcoming barriers of distance and time, economies of scale, and novel instructional methods, while disadvantages include social isolation, up-front costs, and technical problems. Web-based learning is purported to facilitate individualised instruction, but this is currently more vision than reality. More importantly, many WBL instructional designs fail to incorporate principles of effective learning, and WBL is often used for the wrong reasons (eg for the sake of technology). Rather than trying to decide whether WBL is superior to or equivalent to other instructional media (research addressing this question will always be confounded), we should accept it as a potentially powerful instructional tool, and focus on learning when and how to use it. Educators should recognise that high fidelity, multimedia, simulations, and even WBL itself will not always be necessary to effectively facilitate learning.