Young, TM;
(2018)
Award winning incentive in distance learning.
Presented at: 2018 National Healthcare Education Conference: "Innovation in healthcare education", London, UK.
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Background: Our distance learning MSc and Diploma course in Clinical Neurology has traditionally had poor engagement from students with our monthly activities. These activities are set and marked by the clinical tutor, and whilst more formative than summative, are taken into account when awarding the final tutor score which makes 20% of the students final mark. Feedback has been strongly positive for these activities, but they do take some time to complete. Student participation for the five months after I joined as clinical tutor in 2017 was 44 out of 94 students (47%), comparable to levels before I joined. / Aim: We wished to improve participation, but avoid the draconian approach of heavily penalising students for not participating. Whilst monetary rewards can incentivise, work has suggested that non-monetary awards, especially in the form of a gift or presentation, can be very effective too / Methods: We announced to all students that a non-monetary award (a medal) would be awarded at the end of each academic year to the student with the best overall results. Participation with the monthly activities was assessed for the five months after this announcement and compared with the five months before. / Results: The number of eligible students was the same before and after the announcement (94). For the five months after the announcement 56 /94 (60%) of students participated, a significant increase compared to pre-medal announcement levels of 47% (Z test p=0.039). / Conclusions: We have shown that a non-monetary incentive in the form of a medal can significantly increase participation in a distance learning course which had not previously been demonstrated. The medal is still in the process of being designed so does not physically exist yet, raising the question of whether a ‘virtual’ medal might be as effective as a physical one for distance learning courses.
| Type: | Poster |
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| Title: | Award winning incentive in distance learning |
| Event: | 2018 National Healthcare Education Conference: "Innovation in healthcare education" |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Dates: | 13 June 2018 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-school/events/2018-n... |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > IoN Central Administration |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10110775 |
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