The development and evaluation of the use of a virtual learning environment (Blackboard 5) to support the learning of pre-qualifying nursing students undertaking a human anatomy and physiology module

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 388-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue M. Green ◽  
Mike Weaver ◽  
David Voegeli ◽  
Debs Fitzsimmons ◽  
Jess Knowles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Human Anatomy And Physiology

scholarly journals Introductory anatomy and physiology in an undergraduate nursing curriculum

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.J. Brown ◽  
S. White ◽  
N. Power
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
First Year ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Human Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
High Achieving

Using an educational data mining approach, first-year academic achievement of undergraduate nursing students, which included two compulsory courses in introductory human anatomy and physiology, was compared with achievement in a final semester course that transitioned students into the workplace. We hypothesized that students could be grouped according to their first-year academic achievement using a two-step cluster analysis method and that grades achieved in the human anatomy and physiology courses would be strong predictors of overall achievement. One cohort that graduated in 2014 ( n = 105) and one that graduated in 2015 ( n = 94) were analyzed separately, and for both cohorts, two groups were identified, these being “high achievers” (HIGH) and “low achievers” (LOW). Consistently, the anatomy and physiology courses were the strongest predictors of group assignment, such that a good grade in these was much more likely to put a student into a high-achieving group. Students in the HIGH groups also scored higher in the Transition to Nursing course when compared with students in the LOW groups. The higher predictor importance of the anatomy and physiology courses suggested that if a first-year grade-point average was calculated for students, an increased weighting should be attributed to these courses. Identifying high-achieving students based on first-year academic scores may be a useful method to predict future academic performance.

scholarly journals Anatomía y fisiología desde un ambiente virtual de aprendizaje en la Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios –UNIMINUTO Virtual y a Distancia (Anatomy and Physiology from a Virtual Learning Environment at Corporación Universitaria Minuto De Dios

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Marcela Puerto Layton
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology

La enseñanza de la anatomía y la fisiología presenta diversas dificultades para estudiantes y tutores del nivel universitario debido a la complejidad y la extensión de las temáticas; de acuerdo con ello y con la creciente demanda de carreras semipresenciales, La Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios –UNIMINUTO ha impulsado la creación de estrategias pedagógicas y didácticas para abordar este modelo educativo, asociándolo a diseños metodológicos que integran las TIC a través de aulas virtuales y diseñando materiales y comunicaciones entre tutor y estudiante que permitan desarrollar procesos de aprendizaje flexible, autónomo, integral y, por último, que faciliten la comprensión de contenidos. Para el presente ambiente virtual de aprendizaje se trabajaron mapas conceptuales, ejercicios prácticos, laboratorios y la aplicación interactiva BioDigital Human, montados en la plataforma Moodle de UNIMINUTO. Los resultados presentados se obtuvieron teniendo en cuenta tres aspectos básicos: demográficos, evaluación en concordancia con el modelo ADDIE y encuesta de satisfacción realizada a los participantes.

scholarly journals Web-Based Virtual Learning Environment for Medicine Administration in Pediatrics and Neonatology: Content Evaluation (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alayne Larissa Martins Pereira ◽  
Casandra Genoveva Rosales Martins Ponce Leon ◽  
Laiane Medeiros Ribeiro ◽  
Guilherme Da Costa Brasil ◽  
Karen Karoline Gouveia Carneiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Medication Administration ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Validity Index ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing

BACKGROUND Worldwide, patient safety has been a widely discussed topic and has currently become one of the greatest challenges for health institutions. This concern is heightened when referring to children. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to develop a virtual learning environment for medication administration, as a tool to facilitate the training process of undergraduate nursing students. METHODS Descriptive research and methodological development with a quantitative and qualitative approach were used with stages of design-based research as methodological strategies. For the development of the virtual environment, 5 themes were selected: rights of medication administration, medication administration steps, medication administration routes, medication calculation, and nonpharmacological actions for pain relief. After development, 2 groups—expert judges in the field of pediatrics and neonatology for environment validation and undergraduate nursing students for the assessment—were used to assess the virtual learning environment. For the validation of the virtual learning environment by expert judges, the content validity index was used, and for the evaluation of the students, the percentage of agreement was calculated. RESULTS The study included 13 experts who positively validated the virtual environment with a content validity index of 0.97, and 26 students who considered the content suitable for nursing students, although some adjustments are necessary. CONCLUSIONS The results show the benefit of the virtual learning environment to the training of nursing students and professional nurses who work in health care. It is an effective educational tool for teaching medication administration in pediatrics and neonatology and converges with the conjectures of active methodologies.

scholarly journals Evaluation of a virtual learning environment about educational actions for people with diabetes mellitus

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Aparecida Pinheiro Landim Almeida ◽  
Kayo Henrique Jardel Feitosa Sousa ◽  
Joseane Lima de Oliveira ◽  
Luana da Silva Lima ◽  
Tiara Soares Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Interface Quality ◽  
Potential Tool

Abstract Objective: To evaluate, from the perspective of Nursing students, a virtual learning environment about educational actions for people with diabetes mellitus. Method: A cross-sectional and descriptive study with qualitative data analysis and a sample of 71 nursing students. A questionnaire was used to collect data that includes pedagogical and theoretical aspects of the virtual learning environment: content, interaction, activities, response time and interface quality. Results: The results showed that there was a good evaluation of the parameters in most of the evaluated items, except for the figures and sound of the VLE interface domain, which evaluates the quality of the platform design. Conclusion and implications for practice: In the students’ evaluation, the virtual learning environment was a potential tool for the technical and complementary development of nursing, in addition the inclusion in the virtual world of learning.

Gregorc learning styles and achievement in anatomy and physiology.

1995 ◽  
Vol 268 (6) ◽  
pp. S56 ◽  
Author(s):  
P H Harasym ◽  
E J Leong ◽  
G E Lucier ◽  
F L Lorscheider
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Gregorc Style Delineator ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Human Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Bipolar Scale

Results from the Gregorc Style Delineator (GSD), administered to 260 undergraduate nursing students, were compared with achievement scores in a human anatomy and physiology course. Factor analysis and VARIMAX rotation demonstrate that there is no relationship between any of the four learning styles allegedly identified by the GSD and achievement in anatomy and physiology. Factor analysis also shows that the GSD measures only a single bipolar scale of sequential vs. random ability rather than two bipolar scales comprising four learning styles, as suggested by Gregorc. These findings question the validity of the GSD and recommend discontinuing its use as an indicator of learning styles.

scholarly journals Web-Based Virtual Learning Environment for Medicine Administration in Pediatrics and Neonatology: Content Evaluation

10.2196/18258 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. e18258
Author(s):  
Alayne Larissa Martins Pereira ◽  
Casandra Genoveva Rosales Martins Ponce Leon ◽  
Laiane Medeiros Ribeiro ◽  
Guilherme Da Costa Brasil ◽  
Karen Karoline Gouveia Carneiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Medication Administration ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Validity Index ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing

Background Worldwide, patient safety has been a widely discussed topic and has currently become one of the greatest challenges for health institutions. This concern is heightened when referring to children. Objective The goal of this study was to develop a virtual learning environment for medication administration, as a tool to facilitate the training process of undergraduate nursing students. Methods Descriptive research and methodological development with a quantitative and qualitative approach were used with stages of design-based research as methodological strategies. For the development of the virtual environment, 5 themes were selected: rights of medication administration, medication administration steps, medication administration routes, medication calculation, and nonpharmacological actions for pain relief. After development, 2 groups—expert judges in the field of pediatrics and neonatology for environment validation and undergraduate nursing students for the assessment—were used to assess the virtual learning environment. For the validation of the virtual learning environment by expert judges, the content validity index was used, and for the evaluation of the students, the percentage of agreement was calculated. Results The study included 13 experts who positively validated the virtual environment with a content validity index of 0.97, and 26 students who considered the content suitable for nursing students, although some adjustments are necessary. Conclusions The results show the benefit of the virtual learning environment to the training of nursing students and professional nurses who work in health care. It is an effective educational tool for teaching medication administration in pediatrics and neonatology and converges with the conjectures of active methodologies.

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