Blended learning: Assessing nursing students’ perspectives
Curationis
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Blended learning: Assessing nursing students’ perspectives | |
| Creator | Steenkamp, Ilze Chipps, Jennifer | |
| Description | Background: Blended learning combines face-to-face and online learning and has recently gained popularity, accelerated by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, often without active evaluation.Objectives: This study aimed to assess university nursing students’ perceptions of a blended learning approach during the COVID-19 pandemic.Method: The population was 150 third-year nursing students from a university in the Western Cape, South Africa, using all-inclusive sampling. A one-group, pre-and post-evaluation study was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire (Student Perceptions of Blended Learning scale). Differences were assessed using Chi-squared and Mann–Whitney U tests with a significance level of p 0.05.Results: Before implementing blended learning, 128 students (85.3%) completed the questionnaire, while 95 (63.3%) did so after. Demographics and access showed no significant differences between the groups. Post-implementation showed a 10.1% increase in preference for blended learning (χ2 = 2.832, p = 0.092). Ease of use was rated significantly higher before implementation (3.07 ± 0.49), with no significant change post-implementation (2.99 ± 0.58). The blended learning process received lower ratings compared to content, with no significant differences before or after implementation for either (process: 2.55 ± 0.58 vs 2.54 ± 0.63; content: 2.75 ± 0.52 vs 2.79 ± 0.52).Conclusion: Nursing students had a positive perception of blended learning, though the online learning component posed challenges with time and module comprehension.Contribution: The findings can help higher education institutions evaluate existing online management systems and guide nurse educators in meeting students’ needs when developing module resources. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2024-07-05 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/curationis.v47i1.2579 | |
| Source | Curationis; Vol 47, No 1 (2024); 8 pages 2223-6279 0379-8577 | |
| Language | eng | |
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