The Evaluation of iLearn’s Implementation on Students‘ Self-study Session in Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Andalas

Abstract

. E-learning has become a mainstream in most medical schools. It helps the accessibility and sharing of knowledge on par with rapid growth of medical knowledge. iLearn is an e-learning program created by Universitas Andalas. This study was a pilot project to implement the iLearn on students‘ self-study session, as a part of Problem Based Learning (PBL) curriculum in Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Andalas. It was a quantitative study to evaluate the iLearn’s implementation on students‘ self-study session in Block 2.6 (Respiratory Disease). Filled questionaire was collected from 63 students and 13 tutors. The problems of iLearn could be summarized into technical problems (network, server, website accessibility), personal problems (students‘ inability to finish the notes, limited time for tutors to assess, lack of feedback from tutors), and managerial (standardized evaluation for self-study). Everything was predictable as the consequences of new system that need some improvement.