Swaminathan Narasimman, Govindharaj Pitchaimani, Jagadeesh Nalini S, Ravichandran Latha
Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Physiotherapy, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, India.
Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, India.
J Taibah Univ Med Sci. 2020 Dec 9;16(2):268-273. doi: 10.1016/j.jtumed.2020.11.003. eCollection 2021 Apr.
Engaging learners during the COVID-19 pandemic is a significant challenge for educators. The pandemic has propelled the popularity of online learning, with Google Classroom being widely used by educational institutions as a remote learning platform. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of an online faculty development programme on nurse educators' perceived competency in creating and delivering e-content using Google Classroom and other freely available digital tools.
A pre-experimental design was adopted for the research. A six-module online faculty development course was conducted for 24 nurse educators of an affiliated nursing college, over a period of eight days. A debriefing session was held on ninth day after the completion of the course. A 10-item rating scale was used to assess the participants' perceptions of their competency in using Google Classroom and other digital tools for online teaching before and after the online faculty development course.
Out of 24 trained participants, 18 completed the post-evaluation rating scale, giving a response rate of 75%. In the post-evaluation phase, a high level of competency was perceived by 83.3% of participants for using Google Classroom and 66.7% for creating video lectures and using an online grade book. A statistically significant difference ( < 0.001) between pre- and post-course evaluations was observed.
This study shows that the online faculty development programme enhanced the perceived skills of faculty members in effectively delivering online teaching using various digital tools during the pandemic.
在新冠疫情期间让学习者参与进来，对教育工作者来说是一项重大挑战。疫情推动了在线学习的普及，谷歌课堂被教育机构广泛用作远程学习平台。本研究旨在评估一项在线教师发展计划对护士教育工作者在使用谷歌课堂和其他免费数字工具创建和提供电子内容方面的感知能力的影响。
本研究采用实验前设计。为一所附属护理学院的24名护士教育工作者举办了为期八天的六模块在线教师发展课程。课程结束后的第九天举行了一次汇报会。使用一份10项评分量表来评估参与者在在线教师发展课程前后对其使用谷歌课堂和其他数字工具进行在线教学的能力的看法。
在24名接受培训的参与者中，18人完成了评估后评分量表，回复率为75%。在评估后阶段，83.3%的参与者认为在使用谷歌课堂方面能力较高，66.7%的参与者认为在创建视频讲座和使用在线成绩册方面能力较高。课程前后评估之间存在统计学上的显著差异（<0.001）。
本研究表明，在线教师发展计划提高了教师在疫情期间使用各种数字工具有效开展在线教学的感知技能。
