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Rethinking the medical school class lecture model. |
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EurekAlert: Prober also has been working closely with Salman "Sal" Khan, the Silicon Valley-based online learning pioneer whose nonprofit effort, Khan Academy, is widely credited, in the words of Bill Gates, for having "turned the classroom — and the world of education — on its head." Prober and Heath's perspective piece proposes a Khan Academy-styled "flipped-classroom" model of teaching. Lecture content is packaged in 10- to 15-minute videos that are watched by the students at their own pace and as often as necessary to learn the material. Class time is then freed up for more interactive education, with greater emphasis on patients' clinical stories as a way to increase the relevance of the necessary scientific and medical knowledge.
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