ABSTRACT: Social media use and educational preferences among first-year pharmacy students
AbstractBackground: Social media may offer a means to engage students, facilitate collaborative learning, and tailor educational delivery for diverse learning styles. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to characterize social media awareness among pharmacy students and determine perceptions toward integrating these tools in education. Methods: A 23-item survey was administered to 1st-year students at a multicampus college of pharmacy. Results: Students 95% response rate; N = 196 most commonly used wikis 97%, social networking 91%, and videosharing 84%. Tools reported as never used or unknown included social bookmarking 89%, collaborative writing 84%, and RSS readers 73%. Respondents indicated that educational integration of social media would impact their ability to learn in a positive/very positive manner 75% and make them feel connected/very connected 68%. Conclusions: Selectively targeting social media for educational integration and instructing pharmacy students how to employ a subset of these tools may be useful in engaging them and encouraging lifelong learning.
via Social media use and educational pre… [Teach Learn Med. 2013 Apr-Jun] – PubMed – NCBI.
Written by Brian S McGowan, PhD
Dr. McGowan has served in leadership positions in numerous medical educational organizations and commercial supporters and is a Fellow of the Alliance (FACEhp). He founded the Outcomes Standardization Project, launched and hosted the Alliance Podcast, and most recently launched and hosts the JCEHP Emerging Best Practices in CPD podcast. In 2012 he Co-Founded ArcheMedX, Inc, a healthcare informatics and e-learning company to apply his research in practice.
