Sung et al. (2016: 252–253) report that "mobile technologies have great potential for facilitating more innovative educational methods.
We recommend development of more effective educational methods, application of proactive enforcement, and continued evaluation of tools by directly measuring change in human behavior.
Although didactic teaching has been surpassed by more novel educational methods, in resource poor countries it remains an effective and cost effective method of gaining an important educational standard.
While didactic teaching has been superseded by more advanced educational methods, it can be argued that, where resources are limited, lecture based teaching still has a place in obtaining a good undergraduate standard.
Developing more creative educational methods, providing materials that are appropriately catered to community members' literacy levels and investing in the community's ability to sustain the education that students provide will also allow for students to rotate to other communities to prevent community fatigue.
The principles are similar to those used in problem-based learning, a more established educational method in which students collaborate to tackle broad, open-ended problems, with a teacher providing guidance though not necessarily a lot of instruction.
"It is important that we critically appraise our course materials and think about which subject suits which educational method to make all the different educational methods within a course more effective".
In contrast to traditional educational methods, serious games are more focused on the views and participation of the learner, rather than the unidirectional guidance of the trainer.
As physicians in general receive only minor training in sickness certification [ 14, 16], more educational efforts such as the described Norwegian method possibly could improve the physicians' professional competence in the area and the quality of related assessments.
The former is more political in its methods, and the latter is more educational.
