title: Reducing the distance: providing challenging and engaging online postgraduate education in pain management.
abstract: 1. Health professionals need access to flexible, high-quality, advanced education in pain management. 2. There are multiple pedagogical distances to be negotiated in the delivery of effective postgraduate education. 3. A critical consideration in the design and delivery of effective online learning for postgraduate education in pain management is how to: actively engage students in the learning process; and encourage students to become lifelong learners. 4. Conceptual frameworks for encouraging student interaction online provide a useful tool in the design of postgraduate online learning activities.
authors.affiliation: Pain Education Unit, Sydney Medical School - Northern, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Devonshire
authors.affiliation: School of Clinical sciences and Community Health, College of Medicine and Vetinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: Sarah E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Henderson
keywords: Postgraduate education; distance education; online learning; student engagement