Ota Marianne, Peck Blake, Porter Joanne
Author Affiliations: School of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare, Federation University Australia, Mt Helen Campus (Ms Ota and Dr Peck) and Gippsland Campus (Dr Porter), Victoria.
Comput Inform Nurs. 2018 Oct;36(10):507-512. doi: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000000456.
In Australia, the emerging use of technology in higher education has brought about significant change in the delivery of undergraduate nursing programs. Universities are now tasked with delivering a blend of online and face-to-face education, while students face new and sometimes challenging online learning environments with little technical support. This article explores the attitudes held by Bachelor of Nursing students toward the blended educational mode at a rural university in Victoria, Australia. A total of 109 participants constituted a convenience sample from a Bachelor of Nursing program across all 3-year levels. Responses provided by participants who completed an online self-report questionnaire were analyzed via descriptive and inferential statistics. The results indicated that participants struggled with inaccurate expectations of workload and the technical difficulties presented by online modules. Although this area requires further research, to an extent autonomy and flexibility were identified as two prominent traits exhibited by students who flourished in the blended modes. All in all, the results of this study strongly reflect the challenges faced by undergraduate nursing students navigating newly introduced online systems in a blended mode of study.
在澳大利亚，高等教育中技术的新兴应用给本科护理课程的授课方式带来了重大变革。如今，大学的任务是提供线上与线下相结合的教育，而学生们则面临着全新且有时颇具挑战性的在线学习环境，却几乎得不到技术支持。本文探讨了澳大利亚维多利亚州一所农村大学护理专业本科学生对混合教育模式的态度。共有109名参与者构成了一个便利样本，他们来自该护理专业本科项目所有三个年级。通过描述性和推断性统计分析了完成在线自我报告问卷的参与者给出的回答。结果表明，参与者对工作量的预期不准确，且在线模块带来的技术难题让他们感到困扰。尽管这一领域需要进一步研究，但在一定程度上，自主性和灵活性被确定为在混合模式下表现出色的学生所展现出的两个突出特质。总而言之，本研究结果有力地反映了本科护理专业学生在混合学习模式下使用新引入的在线系统时所面临的挑战。
