Introduction: In 2020, information and communication technology largely replaced classroom education due to the declared COVID-19 epidemic. Thus, the implementation of study programmes of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana, was almost entirely transferred to the Internet. An important competency that the Faculty of Health Sciences students must acquire in first aid is the recovery position. During distance learning, students learn this position through an online classroom. This raises the question of the difference in achieving the learning aims between learning the process through the online classroom and learning in the study. Purpose: To compare the practical knowledge of first aid relating to a recovery position acquired through the online classroom and by learning in the study. Methods of work: An experimental method of work was used. Data were collected with the help of an assessment sheet, which was used to evaluate the performed recovery position. All students first had the opportunity to listen to an online lecture on the topic. Then, after watching the video in the online classroom, the students of the first group performed a recovery position on a volunteer, photographed it, and uploaded the video to the online classroom. The second group of students attended a demonstration in the study at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana. After the knowledge was acquired, each student performed a recovery position on a volunteer, which we photographed, and the recording was the basis for the evaluation. The population sample was 100 Faculty of Health Sciences students (50 from the first group and 50 from the second group). The obtained number of points (from 5 or “insufficient” to 10 or “excellent”) of both groups was compared with the t-test for independent samples (using the SPSS program for statistical data processing). Results: The average score of the position performed through the online classroom was 7.3 and 8.9 of that performed in the faculty's study, which was a statistically significantly higher score. Discussion: Compared to their colleagues from the first group, the students from the second group showed a higher level of practical knowledge both in the implementation of the position itself and in the category of providing an open airway. Conclusion: It has been found that students acquire a higher level of practical knowledge of first aid in the study. In the field of first aid training, we are thus faced with the challenge of how to use the possibilities of information and communication technology in such a way that students will be able to gain a higher level of practical knowledge in addition to theoretical content.
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