A comparison of student and faculty attitudes on the use of Zoom, a video conferencing platform: A mixed-methods study <sup>☆</sup>

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Abstract

Aim

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated opportunities and challenges for nursing education, with many nursing programs transitioning in-person courses to online delivery with varying degrees of success. This study aimed to compare the attitudes of baccalaureate nursing students and nursing faculty members towards the use of Zoom for nursing education in Alberta, Canada.

Design

A mixed-methods design was used to measure student and faculty attitudes.

Methods

Data were collected using a Likert-scale survey with the opportunity to share additional perceptions in the form of qualitative data. Quantitative data underwent descriptive analysis as well as inferential analysis comparing results from both groups. A thematic analysis was conducted for qualitative data.

Results

Most student and faculty participants favour in-person learning approaches to online platforms. Students' attitudes toward online practice experiences were overwhelmingly negative, citing concerns with lack of relational practice and skill development. Achievements and barriers were also identified with online learning.

Conclusions

With an uncertain future in nursing education, opportunities exist to examine current nursing education program delivery and thoughtfully augment in-person learning approaches with online methods.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Nurse Educ Pract

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Nurse Educ Pract

Title: Nurse Education in Practice

Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.

ISSN (Print): 1471-5953

ISSN (Electronic): 1873-5223

Publication date PMC-release: 30 June 2021

Publication date (Print): July 2021

Publication date (Electronic): 30 June 2021

Volume: 54

Page: 103138

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[0005]Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada

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Publisher Item ID: S1471-5953(21)00174-8 Publisher ID: 103138

DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103138

PMC ID: 9760109

PubMed ID: 34237510

SO-VID: c5620caa-1bad-4da7-bc8b-e027d23dfc58

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Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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Date received : 15 April 2021

Date revision received : 10 June 2021

Date accepted : 27 June 2021

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