This book describes both the advantages and difficulties of online pharmacy education as well as methods to overcome the challenges. It also covers online pharmacy practices, research, teaching strategies, and assessments for online learning.
The purpose of the book is to cover web-based and online learning, from lecture to team-based learning, and provide tips for implementing these strategies. These are noteworthy goals, and the book fulfills its objectives. Both pharmacy education and technology have changed worldwide. Therefore, this book is needed as it provides readers with necessary information and a holistic perspective of online pharmacy education, practice, research, teaching strategies, and assessment methods.
The book is intended for pharmacy educators, students, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers interested in online pharmacy education, research, and practice. The book meets the needs of its audience as it covers information from multiple aspects and provides readers with pertinent resources. The author is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in the U.A.E. and has designed many pharmacy programs for different universities around the world.
The first section focuses on online pharmacy education, including its origins, importance, theories, pedagogies, and accreditation practices. The second section covers online pharmacy practice, including online pharmacies, social media, and mobile health technology. Section three explores online pharmacy research, including research methods and methodologies, while section four details pharmacy education teaching strategies. These include active learning strategies such as flipped classes, web-based learning, and blended learning. Section five discusses pharmacy education assessment and evaluation methods. One notable benefit of the book is that it includes advantages and disadvantages in each section. It also provides readers with tips for implementing these strategies.
This book is useful as it covers many teaching styles and highlights best practices for online teaching worldwide. Some notable topics include mobile health technology, pharmacists' prescribing, and the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in pharmacy education. The book is a good resource for readers to learn about online pharmacy education across the world and employ these practices at their own institutions.
- Yen Dang, PharmD(University of Maryland Eastern Shore)
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