فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Learning helps acquire knowledge or skills. COVID‑19 outbreak severely affectedthe progress of education all across the globe. Pandemic‑induced alternative methods of teachingpromoted the progress of online education. Hence, this study is undertaken to assess an overviewof teaching learning strategies in the COVID‑19 pandemic so as to explore the direction of medicaleducation and help perk up the teaching learning methods in medical education.MATERIAL AND METHODS: The cross‑sectional study involves first year medical undergraduatestudents of 2020–2021 batch studying at Dr.VMGMC, Solapur. It involves complete enumeration ofstudents of 2020-2021 batch. Due to the second wave of COVID‑19 pandemic hematology, classeswere continued and completed by the same faculty by online live teaching using Microsoft teams.As this being an online survey, it was ethically exempted. A comparison of questionnaires betweenoffline and online classes was done by using χ2 test and a P value less than 0.05 was consideredas significant. Quantitative data generated by the dichotomous question and five‑point Likert scalequestions were analyzed using descriptive statistics and frequency analysis. Out of 189 respondents,majority of students preferred traditional offline classes over online classes. Self‑directed learningwas feasible in both methods of teaching.DISCUSSION: Traditional offline classes were more interactive and enthusiastic than online classes.Offline classes helped students to revise, recollect, and reproduce necessary information as theirattention span was better in offline teaching than online teaching.CONCLUSION: Holistic understanding and better learning were experienced through traditionaloffline classes. Although teachers take double efforts for online teaching, the overall learning effectand impact of traditional offline classes were much better than online classes. It definitely motivatesandrgaogy and helps understand the concept on their own.