Table 4 Qualitative Questionnaire on Participants’ Perspective towards Blended Learning Emergency Airway Management Training

Why did you take part in this program (emergency airway management training)?

To improve one’s knowledge (12 out of 15 participants) and skills (5 responses)

Would you recommend this course (blended learning emergency airway management training) to a friend? Why?

All participants responded “yes” to recommend this course to a friend because it was beneficial (9 responses), informative (9 responses), simple and concise (2 responses), and helped to improve skills (6 responses) and the videos are accessible anytime and at any location (1 response).

How would you describe the training you received via blended learning?

“Informative” (4 responses), “comprehensive” (1 response), “concise” (1 response), “efficient” (1 response), “enjoyable” (1 response), “well-organized” (1 response), “good” (3 responses), “ample time provided” (1 response), “extremely good and valuable training which is hard to learn via textbook only” (1 response), “affords flexibility in learning” (2 responses), “can go through the materials over and again” (1 response), “a little boring” (1 response).

Did you do all the activities in the course? Why or why not?

Yes (13 responses). No (2 responses) because “it was getting boring” (1 response)

Do you feel this course has any advantage(s) for the students? Which?

Yes (15 responses); all of the modules (1 response), airway anatomy (1 response), algorithms (1 response), pharmacology (1 response), difficult intubation (1 response) and rapid sequence induction (1 response).

Do you feel this course has any disadvantages for the students? Which?

Yes (4 responses), as it requires discipline (2 responses), good internet connection (1 response) and more engaging videos as “monotonous presentation had me losing my concentration” (1 response).

In which class, do you think you would work more actively: in a face-to-face classroom or in an online learning? Why?

Online learning (4 responses) because it affords flexibility (2 responses).

Face-to-face classroom (6 responses) it is “not easily distracted” in face-to-face classroom (1 response), and it allows for “interaction and discussion there and then” (1 response), and that they would know better what mistakes were made in face-to-face classroom (1 response).

What did you like the most about this course?

Materials and knowledge gained (8 responses) as there “depths in the knowledge and skill that I can acquire regarding airway management” (1 response) and “easy learning with good teaching and guidance” (1 response), Flexibility of time (2 responses), “making it easy to accommodate in a busy schedule” (1 response).

Would you like to take more courses that use blended learning? Why?

Yes (14 responses), because of the flexibility of time and place (3 responses), “being able to re-play the videos to comprehend the important points that I might have missed” (1 response), ability to monitor own progress (1 response), and “for knowledge and self-improvement” (2 responses).

No, still prefer traditional lecture-style of learning (1 response).

If you could suggest changes to this course what would you suggest?

Should allocate longer duration for the course so that they would not have to “cram things daily” (1 response), using better quality audio system in the videos (1 response), to put up more interesting videos (1 response).

What would improve your participation in online discussions?

Incentive for active participation (e.g. achievement points or participation rewards) (1 response), “more involvement by all participants, with everyone taking the initiative to discuss the topics” (1 response) and facilitators/instructors should have taken a more active role to pose more questions to the participants because when the participants were not asking questions, it is because “we don’t know what we don’t know” (1 response).