The undergraduate nursing programs (UNP) in the United States usually follow the brick-and-mortar model that adopts the face-to-face teaching environment. It is mainly due to nursing field’s practice-oriented characteristic. More and more UNPs started to adopt blended learning model where e-learning and the traditional classroom teaching co-exist. In the e-learning part, lectures are typically pre-recorded and hosted in the learning management system for students to access 24/7 during the entire semester. At the same time, the traditional face-to-face teaching is still conducted on regular basis to reinforce e-learning. This study was conducted in a private four-year university, which specializes in health care education in the United States.
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By the end of 2009, all nursing courses had converted to the blended learning environment. To help nursing faculties better understand the concept of the blended learning model, the university described its blended learning model into two parts: 1) the traditional face-to-face teaching part, where students meet their instructors, typically once or twice a week. Classroom learning activities include clinical case study analysis, quizzes, exams, instructional games, mannequin based simulations, videos, exam practice questions, discussions, and question and answers; 2) the e-learning part, where all the teaching content is designed and pre-recorded by professional course developers. Students can access that Flash-based content 24/7 during the entire …show more content…
Interviews from the faculty members suggested that there could be initial resistance from students on taking the e-learning content outside of class. Pop quizzes at the beginning of each face-to-face class helped motivate students to complete the e-learning portion at home prior coming to class. (Jinyuan, Ming-Hsiu, Zhigang, & Lorentz,
By the end of 2009, all nursing courses had converted to the blended learning environment. To help nursing faculties better understand the concept of the blended learning model, the university described its blended learning model into two parts: 1) the traditional face-to-face teaching part, where students meet their instructors, typically once or twice a week. Classroom learning activities include clinical case study analysis, quizzes, exams, instructional games, mannequin based simulations, videos, exam practice questions, discussions, and question and answers; 2) the e-learning part, where all the teaching content is designed and pre-recorded by professional course developers. Students can access that Flash-based content 24/7 during the entire …show more content…
Interviews from the faculty members suggested that there could be initial resistance from students on taking the e-learning content outside of class. Pop quizzes at the beginning of each face-to-face class helped motivate students to complete the e-learning portion at home prior coming to class. (Jinyuan, Ming-Hsiu, Zhigang, & Lorentz,