Medical Students' Self-Regulated Learning Using Digital Technologies

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 14
  In Poster Session: Division I. Education in the Professions: Poster Session

Abstract

With medical education transitioning from traditional curricular to competency-based curricular, the curricular change is usually accompanied by the integration of technology, adoption of flipped classroom model, and self-directed learning. While in non-medical education research has suggested the importance of self-regulated learning strategies for students’ self-directed learning, scant research has been focused on this in medical education. This study thus looked into 26 medical students’ use of digital technologies in a flipped classroom environment, and how their use of technology supported students’ self-regulated learning strategy development. The results showed that students’ extensive use of outside learning resources, organization tools, and communication tools facilitated their development of self-regulated learning strategies, such as elaboration, organization, planning, reflecting, and resources management.

Authors

• Binbin Zheng, University of Hong Kong

• Marissa Zhu, Michigan State University