Comparison of Face to Face Lecture, Interactive Internet Based and Computer Based Teaching

Early Phase 1

Completed

• Conditions: 3rd Year Medical School's Students
• Interventions: Other: Teaching Methods

• Registration Number: NCT01269775
• Lead Sponsor: Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary

The investigators carried out a randomized controlled trial comparing three methods of teaching. These three instructional methods consist of face to face lecture, interactive internet based teaching and computer based teaching (lecture synchronized with presentation).

The hypotheses tested were: a) whether there is a difference between these three methods in knowledge achievement and b) whether there is a difference between Students satisfaction in three groups.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-06
• Primary Completion: 2010-07
• Study Completion: 2010-07
• Status Verified: 2011-01
• Study First Submitted: 2011-01-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-01-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-01-03
• Study First Posted: 2011-01-04
• Last Update Posted: 2011-01-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 84

Inclusion Criteria

• 3rd year medical school's students

Exclusion Criteria

• It must be their first experience of the course and they must have no previous elective or obligatory study about teaching topic (multiple myeloma).

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Face to face lecture	Teaching Methods	The lecturer allocated 1.5 hours for delivering the lecture by using provided slides about the topic and 0.5 hours for question and answer.
Internet based teaching	Teaching Methods	For providing materials for interactive internet-based group the professor's lecture was converted to an interactive electronic content. This content started with a case introduction followed with asking questions and then based on each student's answer a learning pathway would be assigned to his/her.
Computer based teaching	Teaching Methods	For providing material for computer-based group the lecture of the same professor was recorded in studio environment and was synchronized with the slides that were similar to those for lecture-based group. Then the lecture and the slides were converted to a CD as a multimedia CD.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tehran University of Medical Sciences; 🇮🇷 Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of