| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔英科技大學 === 護理系碩士班 === 95 === Background
E-learning is recognized as one of the important teaching models in both academic and business fields. The quality of teaching will be increased under the development and characteristic of Internet. However, research on synchronous e-learning education used in continuing education in nursing is limited in Taiwan. The purposes of this study were: (1) to utilize synchronous Internet education system teaching two courses regarding infection control in order to understand nurses’ self efficiency on internet, learning motivation and satisfaction of synchronous Internet education, (2) to explore the predictors of satisfaction on synchronous Internet education, and (3) to understand nurses’ views on participating in synchronous Internet education.
Methodology
A descriptive research design was used to guide this study. A convenient sample of 104 nurses participating in a synchronous e-learning education from a regional teaching hospital in south Taiwan was recruited. The instruments used for data collection included demographic questionnaire, the learning motivation scale on Internet learning, the satisfaction questionnaire of Internet study and the self efficiency questionnaire on synchronous Internet education. In addition, a semi-structured interview was conducted to understand the learning experiences of the 25 nurses attending the continuing education via synchronous e-learning.
Results
The results revealed significant positive correlations among the self-learning efficiency of Internet, learning motivation and satisfaction on synchronous e-learning education, the correlation ranged from .311 to .596. In addition, learning motivation of synchronous e-learning, self-learning efficiency and age can predict 44% of the total variation of learning satisfaction on the synchronous e-learning education, with the adjusted R2 of 42.9%.
Two categories were emerged from the interview data, including the experiences of synchronous e-learning education, and recommendations for synchronous Internet education. Under the category of “the experiences of synchronous Internet education”, three themes were extracted, including (1) convenience, innovation and suitability for nurses’ working schedules, (2) increasing the learning interaction between teacher and learners, and (3) the desire of participation were influenced by computer skills. Under the category of “recommendations for synchronous Internet education”, three themes were extracted, including (1) cultivation of seed teachers, (2) combination of synchronous and asynchronous Internet education, and (3) attempt to strengthen the learners’ computer skills.
Discussion and Conclusion
In a conclusion, the study revealed that nurses were satisfied with a synchronous e-learning which were founded to increase nurses’ learning motivation. However, the computer ability and the hardware of the individual computer were the two major factors impacting the successful of the synchronous e-learning. The researcher suggested the leaders of the institutional should increase informatics ability of nurses and expand the computer equipments while promoting the utilization of a synchronous e-learning. In addition, combination of synchronous and the asynchronous e-learning in continuing education for nurses were recommended.
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