To challenge the issue of time, space, and distance,
eLearning has become an effective way that requires the use of the available technological
tools in the learning process. However, how to engage distance students to learning
materials is the biggest concern of eLearning. The appropriate use of technology
helps to address the issue of students’ engagement. This video is an example of addressing the
issue using the available technology tools.
The number of nursing students who are engaged in the world of technology increases over time; therefore, a new paradigm shift is needed in nursing education to navigate the constant evolution of social media. Technology plays an important role in transforming nursing education. Integrating technology in nursing education helps to make the learning process more interactive and enables educators to develop and translate new pedagogic research to nursing education.
Friday, July 10, 2015
Monday, July 6, 2015
Graphic Design: Improve Nursing Students' comprehension with visuals
Graphic design can enhance course material by giving the content a visual component which can aid students’ comprehension of difficult concepts.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Instructional Design Theory: Constructivism in Nursing Education
Learning and instructional design
theories mostly focus on an individual activity and his/her consciousness as important
elements that happen in relevant to certain environmental context. This focus
drives instructional design theories to construct an instructional guide that
fits the context in which learning and performance take place (Jonassen,
Tessmer, & Hannum, 1998). It is assumed that the representation processes
of human mind are similar to the data structure of a computer. Therefore, “the central hypothesis of
cognitive science is that thinking can best be understood in terms of
representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that
operate on those structures” (Stanford University, 2002, Para.3). In Terms of students’ learning and thinking,
instructional design theories explain
how the learning happen and provide directions or outlines that facilitate the
learning process.
Constructivism is one of the instructional design theories. It describes that people are the creators for
their own understanding and knowledge and everything is built based on their experiences
of the world they live in. Therefore, in the context of classroom, it is recommended
that educators should use more active techniques that encourage students to
build and develop their own knowledge, such as experiment learning activities
and problem solving techniques that are related to the real world. According to
the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (2004), “Constructivist teachers
encourage students to constantly assess how the activity is helping them gain
understanding. By questioning themselves
and their strategies, students in the constructivist classroom ideally become expert
learners” (Para. 3).
Constructivism theory can be used
effectively in nursing education as a guide for effective learning. The instructions of constructivism theory can
be applied in the simulation lab; faculty can make scenarios that simulate the
reality of the clinical settings, so nursing students can build their own
knowledge and understanding about clinical practice in a safe environment that
allows for mistakes. It also gives students the opportunity to evaluate their
performance and reflect on they experienced.
Constructivist Foundations of Teaching for Learning
References:
Educational
Broadcasting Corporation (2004). Concept to classroom. Retrieved from http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/constructivism/
Jonassen, D. H.,
Tessmer, M., & Hannum, W. H. (1998). Task analysis methods for
instructional design. Routledge. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Stanford University
(2002). Cognitive science. Retrieved from http://stanford.library.usyd.edu.au/archives/spr2004/entries/cognitive-science/
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