THE IMPACT OF A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY ON STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG BACCALAUREATE NURSING STUDENTS.

The purpose of this article is to present findings from a study which evaluated the effectiveness of a virtual community (an emerging pedagogical application) on student engagement and academic performance. Virtual communities mirror real-life through unfolding patient histories and relationship dev...

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Publicado en:Journal of Professional Nursing Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 284 - 291
Autores principales: Giddens, Jean, Hrabe, David, Carlson-Sabelli, Linnea, Fogg, Louis, North, Sarah
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: W B Saunders Sep/Oct2012
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          Giddens, Jean
          Hrabe, David
          Carlson-Sabelli, Linnea
          Fogg, Louis
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        affil: Professor and Executive Dean, College of Nursing, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.
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          Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
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          Computer-Assisted Instruction
          Vignettes
          Learning
          Academic Performance
          Quasi-Experimental Studies
          Education Research
          Human
          Schools, Nursing
          Southwestern United States
          Communication
          Comparative Studies
          Convenience Sample
          Curriculum
          Power Analysis
          Descriptive Statistics
          Course Evaluation
          Summated Rating Scaling
          Student Performance Appraisal
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Ethnic Groups
          T-Tests
          Chi Square Test
          Marital Status
          Male
          Female
          Educational Status
          Scales
          Surveys
          Coefficient alpha
          Faculty, Nursing
          Faculty-Student Relations
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
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      ab: The purpose of this article is to present findings from a study which evaluated the effectiveness of a virtual community (an emerging pedagogical application) on student engagement and academic performance. Virtual communities mirror real-life through unfolding patient histories and relationship development over time. Students also become more engaged in learning by creating personally meaningful knowledge of a concept (Rogers & Stone, 2007). Virtual communities offer one teaching strategy to assist students in learning complex, health-related content in a contextualized manner. This quasi-experimental study involved first-semester baccalaureate nursing students enrolled in a course at two campuses of a nursing program at a large university in the Southwest. Three key strategies assessed the impact of the virtual community on student engagement and learning: third-party observational measurement, end-of-class student/faculty surveys, and use of knowledge items in student exams for the class. Significant differences between the control and experimental group were found regarding learning engagement and communication exchanges; the groups appeared similar in ratings of quality of instruction and academic performance. Use of virtual communities can help nursing educators address the recent Carnegie Foundation study's (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard & Day, 2010) counsel to implement "pedagogies of contextualization" in which theoretical and factual information about diseases and conditions are placed in the context of a patient's experience.
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