Relationship between participants' level of education and engagement in their completion of the Understanding Dementia Massive Open Online Course Approaches to teaching and learning

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Goldberg, Lynette R ^a   Bell, Erica ^a   King, Carolyn ^a   O'Mara, Ciaran ^a   McInerney, Fran ^a   Robinson, Andrew ^a   Vickers, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dementia; Engagement; Level of education; MOOC; Online learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSTRALIA; DEMENTIA; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84926341628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-015-0344-z     Document Type: Article

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