Healthcare & Technologies

Biography

Biography: Hadeel Lamphon

Abstract

The acquisition of clinical skills is a crucial part of learning to be a nurse and a lack of clinical skills ability can compromise patient care and safety. The methods used to teach clinical skills to nursing students require innovative strategies. Web-based learning is gaining popularity as a supportive way of delivering clinical skills education (CSE). The ease of uploading material to the internet has led to the proliferation of open educational resources (OERs). Reusable learning objects (RLOs) are a specific form of OER and the focus of this study. These UK produced RLOs have been selected in this research because their pedagogical co-design methodology is empirically derived,and they are being used by millions of users worldwide, but little is known about how the RLOs transfer to culturally different countries. The aim of this study is to explore the transferability of multimedia OERs in the form of RLOs created in the UK for clinical skills education in Saudi Arabia (KSA) nursing education. This research adopted a mixed method approach. Undergraduate nursing students participated in the first phase, where the Think-Aloud method was employed to explore students’ and lecturers’ (n=12) skills in-depth views on six clinical skills RLOs. The RLOs were implemented into the nursing curriculum and 140 nursing students (response rate 98%) completed a validated questionnaire on the acceptability, usability and engagement into the use of the UK RLOs within the KSA context. Although some participants faced challenges on the usability of the clinical skills RLOs, the findings showed that the RLOs as OERs can be shared globally. Preliminary results are shown in the table and will be presented in the session. Tutors are now integrating these and other RLOs from the extensive repository into their nursing curriculum which shows that user designed, high-quality OERs are transferable to culturally diverse contexts.