Participation and Interactivity in Synchronous E-Learning Pathology Course During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Our pathology department places high value on the quality of education that the medical students receive. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our department had to deploy e-learning modalities for curriculum delivery. Thus, we conducted this research to evaluate a pathology e-learning class in terms of students' participation and the interactivity dynamics between them and the professor. We used statistics to measure participation during each e-lesson and identified recurring patterns of interactivity. We avoided imposing our predetermined interpretations of the data in this study so as to present an accurate depiction of the aspects of the e-learning environment. We were very pleased to identify a steady e-audience despite the drop-out rate from one e-lesson to the next, as well as strong, increasing interactivity patterns between the students and the professor, as students posed more and more questions from one e-lesson to the next. We are looking forward to future studies that address the e-learning procedure's challenges and provide evidence of its effectiveness and quality.