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34.The Effectiveness and Experiences with Adaptive Online Team based Learning (TBL) Amid Social Distancing in Health Sciences
1. Syeda Zarreen Raza 2. Sanaa Ahmed 3. Ziyad Sanaullah 4. Zahid Ali Memon 5. Zunairah Rais 6. Shakeel Ahmed
ABSTRACT
Objective: To find out the effectiveness and experiences of students with adaptive online TBL strategy utilized during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Study Design: Cross-sectional study
Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Jinnah Sindh Medical University from 1st December to 31 December 2020.
Materials and Methods: A total of 177 students were included in the study. After taking permission from the institutional review board, a link to consent and questionnaire was sent to the students. The questionnaire was divided into software and TBL related questions.
Results: The mean score for the section on software was 3.9 while for TBL activity was 3.6. When students were asked about their experience with the activity, they responded good (47.5%) for working as a team and for communication with colleagues and faculty as good (42.9%) while only 32.5% of the students scored 3 out of 5 for their satisfaction with the online TBL strategy. Overall, 50.8% agreed that online TBL sessions helped clarify their concepts and 46.9% agreed that they will like future online TBL sessions.
Conclusion: Students were satisfied with their online TBL sessions and appreciated the different aspects of the strategy such as working as a team, motivation, and communication resulting in clarification of concepts.
Key Words: Universities, Professionalism, Motivation, Pakistan, COVID-19, and Students, Medical.