scholarly journals Factors Affecting Nursing Student’s Satisfaction with E- Learning Experience in King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wafaa Gameel Mohamed Ali
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Learner Satisfaction ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Perceived Satisfaction ◽  
E Learning

Background; the use of information technology and the internet as teaching and learning tool is rapidly expanding into today’s learning environments. Education institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) are preparing students for a rapidly changing information and technology driven world. The KSA needs graduates who are ready for the workplace and who have a high level of knowledge and confidence in the use of technology to help them in their lifelong learning. Since e- learning is conducted using the Internet and World Wide Web, the learning environment becomes more complicated. Students’ initial perceived satisfaction with technology-based e- learning will determine whether they will use the system continually. So this study aimed to assess perceived e-learner satisfaction and investigate the preceding factors influence on nursing students’ satisfaction with e-learning experience in King Khalid University.  Subjects: A convenience sample of 135 female nursing students affiliated to University Center for Female Studies, King Khalid University was enrolled in this study. Tool: data were collected by using three tools. The first was concerned with collecting data related to sample characteristics, the second concerned with identifying the factors that may affect the e–learner satisfaction with e–learning. The third concerned with measuring the learner satisfaction with e–learning. Results; revealed that 61.5% of participant students were unsatisfied with their e-learning experience and learner attitude towards computer, learners’ computer anxiety, e-learning course flexibility, e- learning course quality, technology quality, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, diversity in assessment, and learner perceived interaction with others were the critical factors affecting learners’ perceived satisfaction. Recommendation &implications: Helping students build their confidence in using computers will make e- learning more enjoyable. Also course content should be relevant, logically organized, easy to use, carefully designed, and presented sparingly. The results show institutions how to improve learner satisfaction and further strengthen their e- learning implementation. Key words: E-learning, E- learner Satisfaction, Factors Affecting E- learner Satisfaction.

scholarly journals Nursing students’ attitude on the practice of e-learning: A cross-sectional survey amid COVID-19 in Nepal

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0253651
Author(s):  
Pratima Thapa ◽  
Suman Lata Bhandari ◽  
Sharada Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Mean

Introduction In present days, the use of information technology (IT) in education is unquestionable. The mounting advancement of IT has changed the scenario of education. With the emergence of the current COVID-19 situation, it has undoubtedly provided a solution to most of our educational needs when all educational institutions remained closed due to the pandemic. This study aims to identify the nursing students’ attitude towards the practice of e-learning amidst COVID-19. Methods A descriptive web-based cross-sectional study was conducted among nursing students with a sample size of 470. A self-administered validated questionnaire along with a standard tool to measure the attitude was used for data collection. Data were analyzed using SPSS. Results The mean ± SD age of the respondents was 20.91± 1.55 years. The majority (76.4%) of the respondents used mobile for their study and 90.4% used Wi-Fi for the internet source. The main advantage of e-learning was stated as the ability to stay at home (72.1%) followed by the reduced cost of accommodation and transport (51.3%) whereas the internet problem (81.7%) was the major disadvantage followed by technical issues (65.5%). Only about 34% of the students found e-learning as effective as traditional face-to-face learning. The mean scores for the domains: perceived usefulness, intention to adapt, distant use of e-learning, ease of learning, technical support, and learning stressors were 3.1, 3.1, 3.8, 2.9, 2.9, and 2.5 respectively. Overall, 58.9% had a favorable attitude regarding e-learning. There was no significant association of overall attitude regarding e-learning with selected socio-demographic variables whereas it was positively associated with all of its six domains. All the domains were positively correlated with each other except for ease of learning with technical support and distant use, and technical support with learning stressor and distant use. Learning stressor versus distant use was negatively correlated with each other. Conclusion Though e-learning was implemented as a substitute during the pandemic, almost half of the nursing students showed a positive attitude regarding e-learning. The majority of the students had internet problems and technological issues. If e-learning can be made user-friendly with reduced technical barriers supplemented with programs that can enhance practical learning abilities, e-learning can be the vital alternative teaching method and learning in the nursing field.

Factors Affecting Consumer's Continuance Online Purchase Intention in Malaysia

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-161
Author(s):  
Yap Mun Fei ◽  
Cheng Boon Liat
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Continuance Intention ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Online Purchase ◽  
Acceptance Model

Objective- This paper attempts to explore the continuance purchase intention among Malaysian consumers on the internet, through the conceptual framework as modified from the Technology Acceptance Model. Methodology/Technique The research data has been collected through the use of an internet-based survey method, with a convenience sample of 300 Malaysian respondents in June 2014; whereas, data analysis is further conducted using the SPSS software, through the measurements of a simple linear regression test, mediation test and moderation test. Findings Results show a positive relationship between perceived usefulness and trust; while the continuance intentionfor online purchase is positively significant to perceived usefulness. The partial mediating role of subjective norm is further identified, between perceived usefulness and continuance intention. It is also understood that both male and female perceive the usefulness of website as an important factor toward their intention to online re-purchase. Novelty - Most of the researches are conducted solely upon the factors or purchase intention, limited studies have been done to investigate the continuance purchase intention among fellow consumers. Type of Paper Empirical paper Keywords: , E-Commerce, Trust, Perceived Usefulness, Subjective Norm, Continuance Intention, Gender

Cloud Computing for On-Demand Virtual Desktops and Labs

2012 ◽  
pp. 111-125
Author(s):  
Christoph Reich ◽  
Sandra Hübner ◽  
Hendrik Kuijs
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
The Internet ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
On Demand ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Collaboration Platforms ◽  
Computer Resources ◽  
Support Research

Cloud computing is used to provide users with computer resources on-demand any time over the Internet. At the Hochschule Furtwangen University (HFU) students, lecturers, and researchers can leverage cloud computing to enhance their e-learning experience. This chapter presents how cloud computing provides on-demand virtual desktops for problem solving, on-demand virtual labs for special courses, and on-demand collaboration platforms to support research groups. The focus is how cloud services can be used, how they can be integrated into the existing HFU-IT infrastructure, and how new didactic models could look.

The Factors Driving Continuance Online Shopping in Saudi Arabia

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talal Al-Maghrabi ◽  
Charles Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Technology Acceptance Model ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Central Regions ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Intention To Continue

This study proposes a revised technology acceptance model that integrates expectation confirmation theory to measure regional differences with regard to continuance online shopping intentions in Saudi Arabia. Perceived usefulness, enjoyment, and subjective norms are determinants of online shopping continuance in Saudi Arabia. Women in the eastern, western, and central region groups are equivalent. The structural weights are also largely equivalent, but the regression path from perceived usefulness to enjoyment is not invariant between female shoppers in the eastern and western regions or in the eastern and central regions. This research moves beyond online shopping intentions and includes factors affecting online shopping continuance. The research model explains 60% of the intention to continue shopping online. Furthermore, this research suggests that online strategies cannot ignore the influence of either direct or indirect regional differences on continuance intentions; the model can be generalized across Saudi Arabia.

scholarly journals Perception of undergraduate nursing students regarding e-learning during COVID-19 pandemic in West Bengal

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1892
Author(s):  
Suvashri Sasmal ◽  
Moitreyee Roy
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
E Learning

Background: The education system has faced severe trouble worldwide in COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning of 2020. In this context every educational institute including nursing colleges has adopted E-learning for smooth continuation of teaching learning process. Keeping this in mind this descriptive survey study aimed to identify the perception of the undergraduate nursing students towards E-learning during COVID 19 phase.Methods: A cross sectional web-based survey has been conducted through Google form with in west Bengal. By using snowball sampling, 327 sample were selected as study participants and they were received the structured questionnaire and submitted after giving their responses. Data were extracted and analysed with the help of different descriptive statistics, such as frequency, percentage, mean, median, standard deviation and inferential statistics in terms of chi-square by using SPSS 20.0 (IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 20.0).Results: In this article 327 participants were enrolled among them 70.95% had indifferent perception, whereas only 14.07% possessed unfavourable perception towards E-learning. Compared with the indifferent percentage the participants with favourable perception was very less i.e. only 14.98%. We also found perception of E learning has no association with demographic variables but significant association is there between gadgets used to attend E learning.Conclusions: Nursing faculties need to address the student’s perception towards e-learning so that efforts can be directed towards improving their learning experience.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Students’ Preference for Nursing Education and their Intent to Leave: A Cross-sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Faten Kandil ◽  
Naglaa El Seesy ◽  
Maram Banakhar
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Intent To Leave ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Family Disagreement

Introduction:Insufficient research has been conducted into the factors that prompt young students to select nursing education as a profession in Saudi Arabia.Aim:The aim of the study is to identify factors affecting students' preference for nursing education and their intent to leave.Methods:This study follows a descriptive cross-sectional research design, with data collected by adapting the Tan-Kuick questionnaire to measure second-year nursing students’ (n=162) preference for nursing education and intent to leave one academic institution in Saudi Arabia.Results:Nursing image is identified as the major factor influencing the nursing students’ preference for nursing education in Saudi Arabia (69.89 ± 16.49), and parents' image of nursing is identified as the factor with the least amount of influence (34.52 ± 22.04). Additionally, more than half of the nursing students surveyed report intending to leave the nursing profession. Regarding the reasons for their intent to leave, a total of 70% of the surveyed nursing students report having no interest in the nursing profession. Family disagreement and societal image are also identified as common prompts to leave nursing.Conclusion:The study recommends the use of media to enhance the image of the nursing profession through the presentation of role models that talk to the students and encourage and motivate them to engage in the working life of a nurse. In addition, the study suggests replicating the longitudinal study for the same group in their third and fourth year of study to see if they leave the nursing profession.

scholarly journals Cognitive IoT-Based e-Learning System: Enabling Context-Aware Remote Schooling during the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Atef Zaguia ◽  
Darine Ameyed ◽  
MohamedAmime Haddar ◽  
Omar Cheikhrouhou ◽  
Habib Hamam
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Remote Learning

The 2019–2020 coronavirus pandemic had far-reaching consequences beyond the spread of the disease and efforts to cure it. Today, it is obvious that the pandemic devastated key sectors ranging from health to economy, culture, and education. As far as education is concerned, one direct result of the spread of the pandemic was the resort to suspending traditional in-person classroom courses and relying on remote learning and homeschooling instead, by exploiting e-learning technologies, but many challenges are faced by these technologies. Most of these challenges are centered around the efficiency of these delivery methods, interactivity, and knowledge testing. These issues raise the need to develop an advanced smart educational system that assists home-schooled students, provides teachers with a range of smart new tools, and enable a dynamic and interactive e-learning experience. Technologies like the Internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), including cognitive models and context-awareness, can be a driving force in the future of e-learning, opening many opportunities to overcome the limitation of the existing remote learning systems and provide an efficient reliable augmented learning experience. Furthermore, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), introduced in education as a way for asynchronous learning, can be a second driving force of future synchronous learning. The teacher and students can see each other in a virtual class even if they are geographically spread in a city, a country, or the globe. The main goal of this work is to design and provide a model supporting intelligent teaching assisting and engaging e-learning activity. This paper presents a new model, ViRICTA, an intelligent system, proposing an end-to-end solution with a stack technology integrating the Internet of things and artificial intelligence. The designed system aims to enable a valuable learning experience, providing an efficient, interactive, and proactive context-aware learning smart services.

scholarly journals Understanding communication skills learning, behavior and attitude among students in three nursing colleges in Qassim region, Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Hanan M.M. Tork ◽  
Areej S. Alatrash ◽  
Asma R. Alharbi ◽  
Mona A. Almansour ◽  
Rawan S. Alolayqi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Learning Behavior ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Skills Learning

Background: Effective communication is one of the many skills that nursing students should master to be good at their job. Nursing students have to understand different kinds of communication styles to know how to deal with different situations as an aspect of nursing professional education. Poor communication is a barrier to effective nursing practice and this leaves the nurse to be isolated, feeling more stress and dissatisfied.Objective: The aim of the present study is to evaluate the communication skills learning, behavior and attitude among nursing students and their thoughts about the role of communication in three colleges in Qassim, KSA.Methods: A descriptive study was applied using a convenience sample of 116 female students from three nursing colleges in Qassim region, Saudi Arabia. Attitude toward the learning of communication skills was evaluated by Communication Skills Attitudes Scale (CSAS).Results: All participants were female and most of them 3rd year students. The majority of nursing students at Qassim University (95.1%) had hospital training for three semesters and more compared to 61.8% from Al-Ghad College and 42.9% from Buraydah Colleges. Statistically significant differences were detected among the three colleges regarding most of the items of communication skills behavior. Communication Skills Attitudes Scale revealed a moderate score in the positive attitudes and the average score for negative attitudinal score.Conclusions: Moderate positive attitudes toward communication skills learning among nursing students of the three colleges. The results provide an important base for improving the content of the current communication curriculum in nursing study programs.

Exploring the use of internet by university students for seeking health related information

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad Ahmad ◽  
Mohammed Naved Khan ◽  
Obaidur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Tam Model ◽  
Health Related ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Use Of Internet

Purpose Internet is both a medium and a platform for information exchange. This characteristic of internet is gradually metamorphosing it into an e-learning enabler. A significant percentage of internet users access health-related information through the medium of internet, but little is known about the factors that determine such behaviour. This study aims to explore the factors that determine the behaviour of those seeking health-related information in the virtual world. Design/methodology/approach The present study analyses the role of perceived ease of usefulness (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), self-efficacy (SE) and information quality (IQ) on the intention (IU) of the internet users to seek health-related information. Researcher-controlled sampling was used for data collection from 210 university students. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA), t-test and correlation have been used for data analysis. Findings The results of the study demonstrate that except SE, all other factors have a positive relationship with the intention of the users to seek health-related information. The findings suggest that PU and IQ overshadow PEOU in encouraging the users seeking such health-related information over the internet. Originality/value The present study extends the understanding of e-learning adoption associated with seeking health-related information. The researchers propose an extended technology acceptance model (TAM) model to study the factors influencing the use of internet in seeking health-related information by the students enrolled in medical and non-medical courses.

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