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Update Dental College Journal, 2014
Background: The use of computer has enhanced undergraduate medical education. Computer assisted l... more Background: The use of computer has enhanced undergraduate medical education. Computer assisted learning improves performence at examination, develops problem solving skill. The study evaluates computer literacy among the medical students in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Material and Method: Cross sectional descriptive type of study. Data collected by interviwing 322 randomly selected medical student from East West Medical College & Hospital , Dhaka, Bangladesh. Result: Maximum respondents are within 20 -22 yrs (52.8%) female (54.7%), and have average computer skill (61.8%), mostly use for personal purpose (69.6%). Among the user most of them(66.8%) have own computer at home, mostly have laptop (52.2%) from their school period (51.6%).Among most of them consider using this hamper their study (59%), but they found it helpful to improve study (38.2%).They use internet every alternative day, majority for (35.7%) email & browsing. Conclusion: This study showed that students browses net and email f...
Sri Lanka Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2012
E-learning which is gaining popularity among medical faculties in Sri Lanka requires access to co... more E-learning which is gaining popularity among medical faculties in Sri Lanka requires access to computers and considerable knowledge on information technology. The aim of this study was to assess the computer literacy and attitudes towards e-learning among second year medical students of the Faculty of Medicine, Colombo (n=138) using a self administered, anonymous questionnaire. Results showed that 93.5% of students owned a computer and 95% of them had internet connection. Use of Microsoft Office ® applications was high (90%), along with online communication tools (73.5%). Using ICT for educational purposes was low (51.7%). Use of popular Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook (89.1%), Wikipedia (87.6%), and YouTube (74.4%) was high. There was a significant difference between gender in the use of blogs (P<0.01), and Twitter (P<0.01) with male students using these more. Majority of students (65.7%) spent less time on their computer for learning purposes. Commonly accessed online learning materials were text (82.3%) and images (81.7%). Advantages of online learning materials have been recorded as being more accessible (89.5%), descriptive (85.7%) and easily searchable (88.1%). Awareness of the faculty Moodle platform was low among students (65.7%), as well as usage (32.7%) and 94.7% of students preferred supplementary learning material to be incorporated in the Moodle platform.
Update Dental College Journal, 2014
Background: The use of computer has enhanced undergraduate medical education. Computer assisted l... more Background: The use of computer has enhanced undergraduate medical education. Computer assisted learning improves performence at examination, develops problem solving skill. The study evaluates computer literacy among the medical students in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Material and Method: Cross sectional descriptive type of study. Data collected by interviwing 322 randomly selected medical student from East West Medical College & Hospital , Dhaka, Bangladesh. Result: Maximum respondents are within 20 -22 yrs (52.8%) female (54.7%), and have average computer skill (61.8%), mostly use for personal purpose (69.6%). Among the user most of them(66.8%) have own computer at home, mostly have laptop (52.2%) from their school period (51.6%).Among most of them consider using this hamper their study (59%), but they found it helpful to improve study (38.2%).They use internet every alternative day, majority for (35.7%) email & browsing. Conclusion: This study showed that students browses net and email f...
Sri Lanka Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2012
E-learning which is gaining popularity among medical faculties in Sri Lanka requires access to co... more E-learning which is gaining popularity among medical faculties in Sri Lanka requires access to computers and considerable knowledge on information technology. The aim of this study was to assess the computer literacy and attitudes towards e-learning among second year medical students of the Faculty of Medicine, Colombo (n=138) using a self administered, anonymous questionnaire. Results showed that 93.5% of students owned a computer and 95% of them had internet connection. Use of Microsoft Office ® applications was high (90%), along with online communication tools (73.5%). Using ICT for educational purposes was low (51.7%). Use of popular Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook (89.1%), Wikipedia (87.6%), and YouTube (74.4%) was high. There was a significant difference between gender in the use of blogs (P<0.01), and Twitter (P<0.01) with male students using these more. Majority of students (65.7%) spent less time on their computer for learning purposes. Commonly accessed online learning materials were text (82.3%) and images (81.7%). Advantages of online learning materials have been recorded as being more accessible (89.5%), descriptive (85.7%) and easily searchable (88.1%). Awareness of the faculty Moodle platform was low among students (65.7%), as well as usage (32.7%) and 94.7% of students preferred supplementary learning material to be incorporated in the Moodle platform.