Digital Teaching in Nursing Education: A Quantitative Study on Nursing Students' Views.

Background. In nursing education, learning has been modernized into electronic activities and teaching digitalized. The information flow is fast, easy and knowledge is multifaceted. Challenges in the development of today's nursing education are related to the use of IT and relevant media that reflec...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Caring Sciences Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 837 - 847
Autor principal: Honkavuo, Leena
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: International Journal of Caring Sciences May-Aug2020
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Sumario:Background. In nursing education, learning has been modernized into electronic activities and teaching digitalized. The information flow is fast, easy and knowledge is multifaceted. Challenges in the development of today's nursing education are related to the use of IT and relevant media that reflect students' everyday life, learning experience and future reality. Aim. Explore how nursing students view the impact of digital teaching in nursing education. Method. Quantitative study with inferential statistical analysis. Norwegian nursing students answered a structured web questionnaire on digital teaching in nursing education. The answers were analysed through IBM SPSS-computer program. Results. The needs of promoting digital efforts have a strong impact on students' views on digital teaching. Students with very or fairly great need for the promotion of digital teaching experience a better impact than students with no or little need for such efforts. Students' appreciation of and participation in promoting digital efforts show no statistically significant differences in perceived impact. The study shows that nursing education can impact digital teaching and students' views on digital teaching. Most students perceived that digital teaching and digital promoting efforts have a positive impact on nursing education and their professional development. Conclusion. Digitalized teaching can be explained based on students' knowledge of and motivation for digitalization for professional development. Nursing education teaching has partly moved online meaning that the electronic online teaching environment and material should be logical and clear. Digital technology, digital promoting efforts, globalization and media are integrated in present nursing education. These phenomena contribute to reaching students, motivate and inspire teaching and learning.