McFadden, Michael and Schachter, Crystal and To, Ashley and Vu, Shirley (2020) Effectiveness of podcasting in continuing education. Masters thesis, Stanbridge University.
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Abstract
There has been minimal research into the effectiveness of podcasts as a primary form of education. Podcasts have the potential to be another means of transmitting information and educating individuals remotely. In the current climate of COVID-19, remote access is especially important for education and for current occupational therapists (OT) to access continuing education (CE) courses. Remote access and podcasts would benefit occupational therapists since the availability of CE courses offered for practitioners is limited. It is essential that OTs can access effective CE courses to maintain competency in their knowledge base and refine their clinical reasoning skills. For the purposes of our study, we designed and recorded an ethics-based podcast remotely to determine the effectiveness of podcasts as a method of CE for OTs, Certified occupational therapy assistants (COTA), and OT students. We hypothesized that podcasts are an effective form of education for an ethics course. During our study, we sent pretests to four OT students, distributed the podcast to these OT students via email, and followed up with posttests. After the study, data was collected from pretests and posttests and analyzed to determine the effectiveness of this podcast design. After distribution of the podcast and data analysis, findings suggest that an ethics-based podcast paired with a visual aid may be an effective method for teaching a CE course. Since there were limited participants and the study was completed with OT students, further research is needed to understand the feasibility of a CE podcast with current OT practitioners as well as if podcasts alone are effective in CE.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
| Depositing User: | Institutional Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2022 23:06 |
| Last Modified: | 02 May 2024 21:57 |
| URI: | http://repository.stanbridge.edu/id/eprint/57 |
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