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Publication Details
Resource Type:
Book Section
Publication Date:
2006
Publication Title:
Consumer-Centered Computer-Supported Care for Healthy People
Publisher:
IOS Press
Pagination:
186-189 Summary
The School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (SHS) is planning to expand its contribution to produce more graduate nurses by offering a nursing degree through e-learning. After three years of using elearning by four lecturers in seven nursing courses, we conducted a study to get the lecturers feedback and to compare the studentsâ preference and their actual experiences in e-learning. Lecturersâ feedback were collected based on six open-ended questions. Feedback from all the 36 final year nursing students were collected using Constructivist On-line Learning Environment Survey (COLLES) - the Student Experience/Preferred Form. Results show that lecturers and students have positive perception on e-learning. They perceive elearning as a powerful and effective tool for expanding nursing education to meet the demand for a labour force that is knowledgeable, highly skilled and equipped with positive values. We believe blended learning is the most suitable approach to implement e-learning and social constructivism theory provides the dynamic view of learning. To increase success in e-learning implementation for the nursing programme, lecturers should be educated regarding proper instructional design so that their content delivery blends well with the technology and pedagogy. (Authors' abstract)
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