Sohrabi Zohreh, Koohestani Hamid Reza, Baghcheghi Nayereh, Delavari Somayeh, Rezaei Shahsavarloo Zahra
Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, Center of Educational Research in Medical Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Saveh University of Medical Sciences, Saveh, Iran.
Med J Islam Repub Iran. 2017 Dec 26;31:132. doi: 10.14196/mjiri.31.132. eCollection 2017.
Virtual education refers to a variety of teaching-learning methods that are implemented and supported electronically. The present study was conducted to determine the effects of group blogging on the attitude of nursing students towards virtual education. This was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study in which all fifth-semester nursing students (n=25) were selected and asked to design educational blogs on nursing of respiratory diseases. Attitudes of the participants towards virtual education were measured before and after the intervention. Pretest and posttest mean±SD were 2.98±1.03 and 3.46±0.68, respectively, showing a significant difference (p<0.05). There were significant differences before and after the intervention in the 2 subscales of importance of virtual education and interest in using virtual environment (p<0.05). On the other hand, there was no significant difference in the anxiety of using virtual environment before and after the intervention. In general, the results revealed that blogging by nursing students could improve students' attitudes towards virtual education.
虚拟教育是指通过电子方式实施和支持的多种教学方法。本研究旨在确定小组博客对护理专业学生对虚拟教育态度的影响。这是一项准实验性的前测-后测研究，选取了所有第五学期的护理专业学生（n = 25），并要求他们设计关于呼吸系统疾病护理的教育博客。在干预前后测量参与者对虚拟教育的态度。前测和后测的均值±标准差分别为2.98±1.03和3.46±0.68，显示出显著差异（p<0.05）。在虚拟教育的重要性和使用虚拟环境的兴趣这两个子量表上，干预前后存在显著差异（p<0.05）。另一方面，干预前后在使用虚拟环境的焦虑方面没有显著差异。总体而言，结果表明护理专业学生撰写博客可以改善学生对虚拟教育的态度。
