A Novel Practice of Communication Class Using ICT:Team/Individual Study Using Keynote, Slack, Power Point, Zoom in the First Year of Medical School / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

This article aims to study a novel course on Human communication at Tottori University. As the COVID-19 crisis increased in 2020, face-to-face classes and the off-campus practical training had to be cancelled. Those classes were reconstructed by using ICT with volunteer students. The new themes were “searching for no correct answering for questions” and “connecting between the students” . Before every class, the teacher and volunteer students held discussions on how to use ICT tools for future classes. The use of ICT in a novel communication class was useful for 1) connecting students, 2) providing the place to have relationships through team-taskings, 3) having interactive class using the chat function. Feedback and cooperation from students were important for these realizations.