Frontiers in Educational Research, 2021, 4(3); doi: 10.25236/FER.2021.040315.
Peng Zhang
Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
The last decades witnessed rapid development of mobile Internet, which has remarkably changed people’s lifestyle. As one of the most popular social media in China, WeChat has severed as an auxiliary learning tool. The pandemic of Covid-19 has led to transitions of e-learning in medicine education including urology. Travel restrictions and social distance concerns made more citizens to work and study through WeChat and masses of related publications could consequently be searched. The present mini review focused on impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on WeChat-based urological online learning in China.
medical education, Covid-19, social media, e-learning, urology
Peng Zhang. Covid-19 pandemic on WeChat-based urological E-learning in China: a mini review. Frontiers in Educational Research (2021) Vol. 4, Issue 3: 75-78. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2021.040315.
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