Title: The Acceptance of
Blended E-Learning in The Pedagogical Process of Nursing
Abstract: With the
implementation of the Bologna Process
in the higher education system and the development of web technologies
e-learning has become an important element of the pedagogical process.
Nursing
is not an exception. The introduction of
e-learning is an innovation that has significant impact on pedagogical
and
administrative processes. Both, technological and sociological aspects
of its
implementation should be considered. We hypothesized that blended
e-learning
would be positively accepted by nursing students. Furthermore, we
tested whether
nursing students would accept e-learning as a substitution to the
face-to-face
approach. To test both hypotheses an anonymous survey was performed
among
students attending the second year of the nursing study programme at
the College of Health Care Izola. The results show
that
students have a positive attitude towards the introduction of blended
e-learning in the pedagogical process of nursing and that they perceive
the complete
substitution of the face-to-face pedagogical process with e-learning as
inappropriate.
We conclude
that the implementation of
blended e-learning as a supplement to the classical pedagogical process
would
raise its quality.
Authors: Boštjan Žvanut, Patrik Pucer,
Matic Lukin, Irena Trobec and Nadja Plazar