Effectiveness of Blended Learning in Nursing Education.

María Consuelo Sáiz-Manzanares,María-Camino Escolar-Llamazares,Álvar Arnaiz González

doi:10.3390/ijerph17051589

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https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051589

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Abstract

Currently, teaching in higher education is being heavily developed by learning management systems that record the learning behaviour of both students and teachers. The use of learning management systems that include project-based learning and hypermedia resources increases safer learning, and it is proven to be effective in degrees such as nursing. In this study, we worked with 120 students in the third year of nursing degree. Two types of blended learning were applied (more interaction in learning management systems with hypermedia resources vs. none). Supervised learning techniques were applied: linear regression and k-means clustering. The results indicated that the type of blended learning in use predicted 40.4% of student learning outcomes. It also predicted 71.9% of the effective learning behaviors of students in learning management systems. It therefore appears that blended learning applied in Learning Management System (LMS) with hypermedia resources favors greater achievement of effective learning. Likewise, with this type of Blended Learning (BL) a larger number of students were found to belong to the intermediate cluster, suggesting that this environment strengthens better results in a larger number of students. BL with hypermedia resources and project-based learning increase students´ learning outcomes and interaction in learning management systems. Future research will be aimed at verifying these results in other nursing degree courses.

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In approximately the last decade there has been a marked interest in investigating ways of teaching other than traditional face-to-face
This aspect is of well advised to design their materials for use in a blended learning environment [27,28,29,30], as those special relevance for teachers in nursing higher education, and the implicit message is that they environments appear to have increased the effectiveness of active methodologies, especially project-based learning (PBL) with would be well advised to design their materials for use in a blended learning environment [27,28,29,30], hypermedia resources in Learning Management System (LMS) [38]
The use of prediction and clustering techniques is very important to facilitate personalized learning and to analyze how resources are better utilized in the blended learning space

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In approximately the last decade there has been a marked interest in investigating ways of teaching other than traditional face-to-face. The aim is to teach in the most efficient way possible and to make the most of resources while ensuring sustainability These technological and methodological resources have been applied to different disciplines, especially in the field of health sciences (medicine, pharmacy, psychology, veterinary, etc.). Special importance will be given to its application for the formation of future nursing programs by analyzing the pros and cons of this form of teaching and learning in the society of the 21st century. For this reason, the most relevant concepts of these new forms of teaching and their

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