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Medical Staff Members’ Experiences with Blackboard at Taif University, Saudi Arabia
INTRODUCTION: The coronavirus COVID-19 has had very serious impacts on many aspects of people’s lives worldwide, including the negative effect on the educational system that disturbed the normal functions of medical faculties. Understanding the experiences of medical faculty members will help to bet...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33239883 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S287389 |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The coronavirus COVID-19 has had very serious impacts on many aspects of people’s lives worldwide, including the negative effect on the educational system that disturbed the normal functions of medical faculties. Understanding the experiences of medical faculty members will help to better prepare for making improvements in similar future crises. Moreover, to our extended knowledge, there is no study on e-learning in the field of medical university education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore how online learning was applied at Taif University after the total transformation from traditional education to Blackboard during the COVID-19 crisis and how it can be improved. METHODS: The study used a descriptive qualitative study design. Staff from four medical colleges at Taif University, Saudi Arabia were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview. Eight Saudi lecturers participated, and data were analysed using thematic analysis. RESULTS: This study revealed four themes: Blackboard is professionally well designed; obstacles to the use of Blackboard; the need for Blackboard training; and student behavior through Blackboard. CONCLUSION: The use of the Blackboard has its advantages and disadvantages, and the education sector needs to do more research to find out that issues and work to improve it. |
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spelling | pubmed-76806842020-11-24 Medical Staff Members’ Experiences with Blackboard at Taif University, Saudi Arabia AlKarani, Ahmed S AL Thobaity, Abdulellah J Multidiscip Healthc Original Research INTRODUCTION: The coronavirus COVID-19 has had very serious impacts on many aspects of people’s lives worldwide, including the negative effect on the educational system that disturbed the normal functions of medical faculties. Understanding the experiences of medical faculty members will help to better prepare for making improvements in similar future crises. Moreover, to our extended knowledge, there is no study on e-learning in the field of medical university education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore how online learning was applied at Taif University after the total transformation from traditional education to Blackboard during the COVID-19 crisis and how it can be improved. METHODS: The study used a descriptive qualitative study design. Staff from four medical colleges at Taif University, Saudi Arabia were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview. Eight Saudi lecturers participated, and data were analysed using thematic analysis. RESULTS: This study revealed four themes: Blackboard is professionally well designed; obstacles to the use of Blackboard; the need for Blackboard training; and student behavior through Blackboard. CONCLUSION: The use of the Blackboard has its advantages and disadvantages, and the education sector needs to do more research to find out that issues and work to improve it. Dove 2020-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7680684/ /pubmed/33239883 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S287389 Text en © 2020 AlKarani and AL Thobaity. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Original Research AlKarani, Ahmed S AL Thobaity, Abdulellah Medical Staff Members’ Experiences with Blackboard at Taif University, Saudi Arabia |
title | Medical Staff Members’ Experiences with Blackboard at Taif University, Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Medical Staff Members’ Experiences with Blackboard at Taif University, Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Medical Staff Members’ Experiences with Blackboard at Taif University, Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Medical Staff Members’ Experiences with Blackboard at Taif University, Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Medical Staff Members’ Experiences with Blackboard at Taif University, Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | medical staff members’ experiences with blackboard at taif university, saudi arabia |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33239883 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S287389 |
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