Verification of the effectiveness of digital therapeutics principle textbooks for elementary and secondary school teachers

As the digital transformation of medical systems accelerates, digital therapeutics based on digital technology is attracting attention. Research on digital therapeutics has just begun, and the digital therapeutic market is growing internationally. For students to prepare for an intelligent information society, teachers must be prepared to lead and teach the principles of promising convergence technologies in the future. In this paper, we developed textbooks that can teach the principle of digital therapeutics (DTx) to elementary and secondary school teachers. Textbooks for elementary school teachers were designed with the principle of DTx for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and textbooks for middle school teachers were developed with DTx corresponding to digital dramas as the central theme. The textbooks were developed based on the analyze learners, state objectives, select methods, media, and materials, utilize media and materials, require learner participation, evaluate and revise (ASSURE) model and included teaching and learning plans, worksheets, and reading materials for immediate use in the school field. In addition, textbooks can be used in non-face-to-face classes by using customized online teaching tools. In order to confirm the effectiveness of the developed textbooks, we applied the textbooks to 33 Korean teachers. As a result, teachers’ teaching and learning competency and information teaching efficacy were improved in preparation for the intelligent information society of elementary and secondary school teachers. It was a statistically significant result.