Study Guides: An important tool for the teacher and the student in today’s curriculum or training programme
Closing the communication gap between the teacher/trainer and the student is an important challenge. The education programme too frequently is a ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ with uncertainty as to what students should learn, how they can learn, when they can learn, and how they know if they have learned. Study guides offer a practical approach to closing this communication gap. Study guides support trends in medical education including the moves to self-directed learning, outcome-based education, problem-based learning, integrated curricula, distributed learning and the adoption of a wide range of new learning technologies. The ‘study guide triangle’ will be described as an approach for considering the relative importance of the different elements of a study guide. How a study guide can be used to manage students’ learning, describe student activities, and provide content information will be illustrated. Ideas about how to set about producing a study guide and what makes an excellent study guide will be presented.
- a 'good'internet connection
- Headset (or speakers)
- microphone
- Webcam (optional)
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You can take as much of an active role in the webinar session as you wish. You can choose to be seen and heard when asking questions, for this you will require a webcam and a microphone, you can choose to just be heard using a microphone, or if you wish you can just sit back, watch and listen. You can of course still interact with the presenter even if you do not have a webcam or microphone using the text area in which you can type questions and responses.