Experimental Research on the Effects of Blackboard Platform on Improving Medical Information Retrieval Teaching

We explore whether the application of Blackboard Platform contributes to the improvement of the effects of Medical Information Retrieval teaching. Subjects for this study were 120 students majoring in Medicine in Hebei United University and they entered the university in 2010. They were divided into 2 groups according to the natural class (Group A and Group B). Each group included 60 students. The students in Group A were taught through traditional method and Blackboard Platform. The students in Group B were just taught through traditional method. After the study of a whole term, the teacher recorded and compared the final scores of the two groups and evaluated the students´ satisfaction degrees of Medical Information Retrieval teaching. Results showed that Blackboard platform is an effective auxiliary teaching method in teaching Medical Information Retrieval. It could contribute to stimulating the students learning initiative, improving teaching efficiency and overall quality of teaching.