University Nursing Students' Perception and Challenges towards E-Learning and Recommended Overcoming Ways | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Volume 14, Issue 4, December 2023, Page 886-903 PDF (627.95 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2023.335231 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Sahar Mousa Soliman1; Heba Ali Hassan2; Fatma Ata3 | ||||
| 1Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
| 2Nursing Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
| 3Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: E-learning is a powerful tool that transforms the traditional learning method to strengthen the capacity of teaching and learning. Detecting challenges of E-learning met by undergraduate nursing students could contribute to improving the quality of the learning environment in nursing education. Aim: evaluate university nursing students' Perception and challenges towards E-learning and recommend overcoming ways. Design: A mixed-methods triangulation design was used to collect both quantitative and qualitative data through a web-based form. Setting: The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing affiliated to Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Subjects: The convenient sampling technique composed of (340) university nursing students enrolled in the nursing program during the second semester of the academic year (2022-2023), in the second and fourth batches. Data collection tools: It consists of four parts: demographic characteristics, the perception of students toward E-learning, Challenges of E-learning, and the recommended overcoming ways. Results: The majority of second and fourth academic years nursing students had positive Perception of the benefits of E-learning. while their Perception during attending e-learning for fourth-year nursing students were higher than second year. In addition, three-quarters of the fourth-year academic nursing students reported no challenges faced them during E-learning compared with two-thirds of the second year. Conclusion: there was a positive statistical correlation between overall Perception and challenges toward E-learning as reported by nursing students. Likewise, there was a statistically significant difference between the student's academic years and their overall Perception and challenges toward E-learning as reported by nursing students. Recommendations: Enhance Internet speed and make Internet packages cheaper or even free and supply e-learning tools and computer skills training for students. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| University nursing student; Perception; Challenges; and E-learning | ||||
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