The fastclick generation: webbased resources to support learning

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The fast-click generation web-based resources
to support learning

• Carolyn Gibbon
• University of Central Lancashire
• Preston, UK

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Students comments

• I find it much easier learning from abstracts,
  scenarios, diagrams.
• I was looking for A and P and found the diagrams
  helped me.
• Concentrated on adult malnourished man it
  reminded me of a client at work (mental health
  student)

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• The Students Online in Nursing Integrated
  Curricula (SONIC) is a three year FDTL4 project.
• Partnership of four universities Central
  Lancashire, John Moores, Salford and Northumbria.
• Aim to develop and evaluate five web-based
  clinical scenarios to support students
  undertaking problem-based learning

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Scenarios/triggers

• Baby with cardiac problems
• Teenager with learning disabilities and epilepsy
• Young man with schizophrenia
• Middle-aged woman requiring laparoscopic
  cholecystectomy
• Elderly man with malnutrition

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Evaluation

• Questionnaires through to development of
  workbooks
• Facilitator guides
• Process observe students at computers,
• - allow time to complete
  workbook
• - conduct focus group
• Information from 54 students and 6 facilitators
  

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What are you looking forward to?

• Accessing information to help with my studies
• Information from a reputable Internet site
• Accessing from home
• Improving knowledge base and IT skills
• Empowering me to influence change for the benefit
  of the patient/client

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What are you apprehensive about?

• Being unable to access the site when not on
  university premises
• Information overload
• Use of professional jargon
• Poor IT skills

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Jottings

• On average spent 50 minutes
• Reflective accounts of their experiences
• Identifying what works and what doesnt
• Looking at their learning gains
• Suggestions for improvements e.g. audio

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Changes made

• Guidelines on enlarging the font added
• Self assessment attached to each scenario
• Audio on Peter Murphy scenario
• Text for brittle nail picture
• Alternative to lecture being looked at

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Questionnaires

• A) Accessibility and Availability
• B) Computer Skills
• C) SONIC Contents
• D) Links to Learning
• E) Links to practice

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Access

• Over half the students preferred to use their
  computers at home
• They felt well prepared for using SONIC
• Did not experience any problems finding a
  computer

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Computer skills
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SONIC contents

• Animations useful/very useful
• Photographs some little use, but mainly
  useful/very useful
• Web links same as photographs
• Lecture material similar again
• Other workbook was useful overview of PBL
  saved a lot of time searching.

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Links to Learning
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Links to practice

• Links between theory and practice?
• Yes 35, No 3, Unsure 10
• Have you accessed SONIC in the practice area?
• There were a number of negative responses to this
  question, but on investigation this was due to
  the curriculum design

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Summary of Workbook

• Very positive responses
• Insights into how the resources can support and
  develop their learning
• The rapid access has a strong appeal
• Many stating returning to the resources
• Learning in manageable chunks
• Choice and control over learning

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Summary of Video

• One student had control of mouse and thus
  controlled the learning
• What is the appeal of animations fast click?
• Pronunciation
• Quiz not used to test knowledge, but to show new
  information
• Add a page to show how to evaluate a website?
• How to make informed choices about powerpoint
  presentations

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Comments from Facilitators

• Access some difficulty noted related to
  passwords
• Navigation some anxiety initially, some
  disinterest (not explored here)
• Use of IT animations (1st), skimming, but
  revisited areas
• Working in pairs created discussions
• Danger of too much information on site skill of
  facilitator important

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Final Comments

• The desire of students to learn whenever and
  wherever it suits them increases motivation
• The project supports PBL because it still values
  the face-to-face experience
• Created an interface between PBL and technology
• Flexibility of the resources to be used either
  with the scenario, as a package, or as
  stand-alone reusable learning objects.

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Can you help?

• Enquiries about the evaluations to
• Carolyn Gibbon
• cjgibbon_at_uclan.ac.uk
• Thank you!