Blended teaching of medical parasitology in China during COVID-19 pandemic

doi:10.12140/j.issn.1000-7423.2022.04.014

Abstract

Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic has promoted the development of online teaching in various educational institutions. Different online teaching practice has shown advantages and potential problems. The combination of online and offline teaching (mixed teaching) is a new teaching practice that can exert its advantages simultaneously, and has been wildly used during the COVID-19 pandemic, even being extended to the post-pandemic era. Medical parasitology is a foundation course for medicine and a bridging course towards clinical medicine and preventive medicine. The traditional teaching of medical parasitology has presented many limitations, including outdated teaching concepts and practices, and the disconnection between theory teaching and practice teaching. In response to these difficulties, many innovative ideas and measures have been taken o reform the teaching practice of the foundation medical courses, including updating teaching program, adopting innovative teaching practice (such as blended teaching), and promoting the teaching evaluation method. In this paper, we concluded the blended teaching tools, platforms, manners, effects and evaluation methods in medical parasitology in China during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide information for the teaching reform in the post-pandemic era.

Key words: COVID-19 pandemic, Medical parasitology, Blended teaching, Intelligent teaching software, MOOC

CLC Number:

ZOU Wei-hao, ZHOU Li-juan, PENG Hong-juan, TONG Kuang. Blended teaching of medical parasitology in China during COVID-19 pandemic[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY AND PARASITIC DISEASES, 2022, 40(4): 507-510.

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