Evaluating Usability in Blended Learning Programs Within Health Professions Education: a Scoping Review

Anish K Arora; Charo Rodriguez; Tamara Carver; Matthew Hacker Teper; Laura Rojas-Rozo; Tibor Schuster

doi:10.1007/s40670-021-01295-x

Evaluating Usability in Blended Learning Programs Within Health Professions Education: a Scoping Review

Med Sci Educ. 2021 May 19;31(3):1213-1246. doi: 10.1007/s40670-021-01295-x. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Authors

Anish K Arora¹, Charo Rodriguez^{1

2}, Tamara Carver², Matthew Hacker Teper³, Laura Rojas-Rozo¹, Tibor Schuster¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Québec Canada.
² Institute of Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Québec Canada.
³ Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada.

Abstract

Knowledge was mapped about how usability has been applied in the evaluation of blended learning programs within health professions education. Across 80 studies, usability was explicitly mentioned once but always indirectly evaluated. A conceptual framework was developed, providing a foundation for future instruments to evaluate usability in this context.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-021-01295-x.

Keywords: Blended learning; Evaluation; Health professions education; Scoping review; Usability.

Publication types

Review