Why online osteopathic education is better?
A recent research on hands on skill learning indicates that
in the long term online students learn better techniques than those enrolled in
a campus based program.
The research done recently in USA compared two sets of students
learning a manual skill, one set in a class and another from an online video.
The results indicated that in the same day, after watching
the skill being taught online vs live in the classroom, those classroom students
learned the skill better. However after one week, the online students performed
the skill clearly better than the campus students.
The conclusion the researchers made is that the campus based
students learn from an instructor and then rely on memory to perform the skill
task every day. While the online students get to watch the instructor everyday
and this makes their skill set closer to what the instructor teaches.
So in the short term (the same day) campus based education
is better. However in the long term online students perform better techniques.
At National Academy of Osteopathy even our campus based
students have access to our online manual osteopathy lecture videos. That is
one reason why NAO graduates are so masterful in performing osteopathic
techniques.
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