Development of an E-learning Program on Maternal–Child Nursing and Midwifery 1 for Nursing Students

Abstract

The development of an E-learning Program on Maternal–Child Nursing and Midwifery 1 for Nursing Students aimed to create the teaching model using electronic media for Maternal–Child Nursing and Midwifery 1’s learners. Meanwhile, another objectives were testing and assessment of electronic media teaching model and level of nursing students’ satisfaction that taught by using electronic media. The group of samples were divided into 2 phases by the period of study. Including phase 1 and phase 2 which are the process of studying the behavior of using the electronics media of Boromarajonani College of Nursing students, Chiang Mai, the sample group consisted of 10 students who study in the course of Maternal–Child Nursing and Midwifery 1, in the first semester of academic year 2015. And the process of testing of Maternal–Child Nursing and Midwifery 1 students that using. electronic study material and evaluation of electronic media which using 68 of Maternal–Child Nursing and Midwifery 1 students in the third semester academic year 2015 respectively. The research instruments consisted of 1) Electronic media on the physiology of newborns and newborn health assessment. 2) The testing material that aimed to examined the of knowledge of physiology of newborns and newborn health assessment which contains 20 items as choices. 3) The assessment for satisfaction of students whom study physiology of newborns and newborn health assessment by using electronic media. The analysis of the data was done by the method of frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Independent sample t-test The result presented that 66.2 % of students use the internet 6-7 days/week, as 38.2 % of the student have a fair level in learning by electronic media and 63.2% of students know from the lectures.

The result was developed of an electronic learning tool for “physiology of newborns and newborn health assessment”. at the second phase contained the process of the assessment for the study in the course of Maternal–Child Nursing and Midwifery 1. The sample groups were the students who the been taught the electronic media in accordance with the normal model of teaching and the students who received only the normal model of teaching which controlled with equivalent characteristic in terms of gender and GPA with the amount of 34 students per group. The result indicated that the average knowledge of nursing student between the 2 sample groups didn’t have a significant difference in a level of 0.05 (=9.32, S.D.=2.43, =10.02, S.D.=1.81). However, the result demonstrated that average of nursing students who were taught by electronic media was in a high level of satisfaction (=3.98, S.D.=0.38).

The results of this study can be used as a guideline for the development of electronic media for students who want to review knowledge out of school time. Moreover, there is the additional channel of communication between learners and lecturers. Assessment for satisfaction should be continuously developed to improve the efficiency of media for learning.