School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong City, Hong Kong.
Nurs Open. 2024 Aug;11(8):e2251. doi: 10.1002/nop2.2251.
Internationalization at Home (IaH) strategies play an important role in nursing curricula to enhance nursing students' cultural awareness in the globalized world. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) is a theoretical framework for the optimal design of online learning environments to support critical inquiry and discourse among students and teachers. To optimise nursing students' online cultural awareness learning experiences, it was timely to develop online IaH strategies based on a sound theoretical model. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of CoI-guided online IaH strategies on enhancing the cultural awareness of nursing undergraduates who enrolled in a community nursing course.
This was an interventional pre-test post-test study.
One hundred and six nursing undergraduates who enrolled in the course participated in the study. The online IaH strategies were developed focusing on the interactions of teaching presence, cognitive presence and social presence of CoI framework and they were integrated into the course. A previously validated Cultural Awareness Scale was adopted for pre-post evaluation. Higher scores indicate greater cultural awareness.
The results showed that there was a significantly higher total score of cultural awareness of participating students at post-online IaH strategies. To be effective, aligning CoI-guided online IaH strategies with course content, pedagogy and assessment was shown to be significant. The inclusion of technological elements in related strategies was also critical to engage student learning. The positive change on the total score of cultural awareness suggested the effectiveness of the deployed strategies. In this ever-changing educational landscape, it may provide insights to educators regarding considering online IaH strategies with theoretical underpinning for curriculum planning and design.
国际化本土（IaH）策略在护理课程中发挥着重要作用，可增强全球化世界中护理学生的文化意识。探究共同体（CoI）是一个理论框架，用于优化在线学习环境的设计，以支持学生和教师之间的批判性探究和话语。为了优化护理学生的在线文化意识学习体验，及时基于可靠的理论模型开发在线 IaH 策略非常重要。本研究旨在检验 CoI 指导的在线 IaH 策略对增强社区护理课程注册护理本科生文化意识的有效性。
这是一项干预性的前后测试研究。
106 名注册该课程的护理本科生参与了研究。在线 IaH 策略的重点是 CoI 框架的教学存在、认知存在和社会存在的相互作用，并且将其整合到课程中。采用了先前验证的文化意识量表进行前后评估。得分越高表示文化意识越强。
结果显示，参与学生的文化意识总得分在接受在线 IaH 策略后显著提高。为了有效实施，将 CoI 指导的在线 IaH 策略与课程内容、教学法和评估相协调非常重要。在相关策略中纳入技术元素对于激发学生的学习也至关重要。文化意识总得分的积极变化表明所部署策略的有效性。在这个不断变化的教育环境中，它可能为教育工作者提供有关考虑在线 IaH 策略的见解，这些策略具有课程规划和设计的理论基础。
