Shifting the Education Paradigm amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Nursing Students' Attitude to E-Learning.
The unprecedented emergence of COVID-19 has disrupted education and has led to the rise of e-learning. The shift from the traditional delivery of instruction to online learning brings about varying perceptions that necessitates attention and exploration. This study examined nursing students' attitud...
| Published in: | Africa Journal of Nursing & Midwifery Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 1 - 15 |
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Unisa Press
2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=152750264&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 152750264 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 16825055 Z0G jtl: Africa Journal of Nursing & Midwifery issn: 16825055 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2021 vid: 23 iid: 1 pid: 38319 pub: Unisa Press artinfo: ui: 152750264 152750264 152750264 10.25159/2520-5293/8090 152750264 ppf: 1 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Shifting the Education Paradigm amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Nursing Students' Attitude to E-Learning. aug: au: Oducado, Ryan Michael F. Soriano, Gil P. affil: West Visayas State University, Philippines sug: subj: COVID-19 Pandemic Students, Nursing Student Attitudes Evaluation Online Education Education, Nursing Schools, Nursing Philippines Human Philippines Descriptive Research Cross Sectional Studies Public Sector Private Sector Descriptive Statistics Mann-Whitney U Test Kruskal-Wallis Test Computer Literacy Professional Competence Internet Male Female Sex Factors Questionnaires Coefficient alpha Data Analysis Software Univariate Statistics Young Adult Microcomputers Computers, Portable Male Female ab: The unprecedented emergence of COVID-19 has disrupted education and has led to the rise of e-learning. The shift from the traditional delivery of instruction to online learning brings about varying perceptions that necessitates attention and exploration. This study examined nursing students' attitudes towards e-learning in two selected nursing schools in the Philippines. This study used a descriptive cross-sectional design with 111 nursing students in a public and a private nursing school as study participants. The data were collected via an online survey tool and were analysed using the Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal-Wallis H test. The results indicated that most nursing students had intermediate computer competency (74.8%) and somewhat stable internet connection (66.7%). They generally had negative (40.5%) and ambivalent attitudes (30.6%) towards e-learning. The nursing students considered e- learning to be impersonal and to lack feeling (80.18%) and that it results in less student--teacher interaction (75.66%). There were no significant differences (p > .05) in the e-learning attitude according to the type of school, gender, ownership of a computer, level of computer competency, stability connection and internet usage. Although not statistically significant, those students with stable internet connections appear to have a better attitude towards e-learning. Ambivalence and negative attitudes seem to dominate nursing students' attitudes towards e-learning in the times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing schools must rectify the negative attitudes of students towards e-learning and must take measures to improve students' experiences in the virtual learning environment to ensure that effective learning is never compromised amid the health crisis. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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