Abstract
With the emergence of COVID 19 disaster, dependence on technological and electronic learning is increasing. National Education technology standard has a great impact on improving students' skills. One of these skills is problem solving which is very crucial to nurse student to be prepared to be professional nurse. This study sought to assess application of national education technology standards as perceived by nursing students and its relation to their problem solving skill during COVID 19 disaster. The study adopted a descriptive correlational design using a convenience sample (N = 218) of all fourth nursing students who accept to participate in the study at Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University. The instruments used to gather the data were developed questionnaire by researchers to assess application of national education technology standards, and problem solving skill questionnaire. The results show that the majority of nursing students have high level of perception regarding application of these standards. Moreover, the high percentage of nursing students had high level problem solving skill, and there was a positive moderate correlation between total score national education technology standards, and total score problem solving skill. Based on the findings, it is very important to ensure application of national education technology standards for teaching staff and administrative system. Moreover, Periodic updates and training on the new changes in education technology for both nursing students and teaching staff.
Highlights
1.1 Background to the StudyAt the present time, the world has encountered by the COVID19 virus, which the World Health Organization identified it as a newly discovered virus that is a strain of Corona viruses, and there was no knowledge of it before it appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019
The results demonstrated a positive moderate correlation between total score National Technology Standard, and total score clinical problem solving skills among nursing students during COVID-19 disaster
Study findings is supported by Study done to assess the availability of international standards for education technology (ISTE) the difference of both from gender, specialization, and the academic level in the availability of standards for (458) students, the results indicated that there were no differences to the degree of availability of criteria for the difference in gender or specialization (Hakami, 2019)
Summary
1.1 Background to the StudyAt the present time, the world has encountered by the COVID19 virus, which the World Health Organization identified it as a newly discovered virus that is a strain of Corona viruses, and there was no knowledge of it before it appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Covid-19 is a pandemic affecting many countries of the world. (World Health Organization, 2019). The consequences of a pandemic are unstoppable and uncontrollable for many countries of the world. Almost many countries have stopped face-to-face learning; approximately a billion students’ education is effected worldwide with COVID-19. Most of the higher education system is operating through the E-learning (AzziHuck & Shmis 2020; Shahzad et al 2020a, c). As a response to COVID-19, most nations have applied severe social separating measures and a lockdown strategy. This pandemic has tremendously affected schools, understudies, and educators. The utilization of technology improves the quality degree of learning and teaching among the partners. Electronic learning (E-Learning) has been viewed as the most ideal way to deal with proceed with the teaching and learning process during the pandemic (Octaberlina & Muslimin, 2020)
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