Development of ubiquitous on-demand study support environment for nursing students

Abstract

We were selected to work with "Development of e-Learning Program to help enhance human resource ability based on needs," which is a government supported program of fiscal year 2005 to address modern education needs (Modern GP). The program has therefore been underway since 2005. The objectives of the program are to use e-Learning to further improve education and teaching practices qualitatively for nursing education, to supply high-level nursing practice capabilities, and provide a new environment in which students can study independently in an efficient manner. The main targets to achieve the program goals are: i) to produce e-Learning training materials that include examples of nursing to use for the study of nursing practice and support students' acquisition of problem-solving abilities during nursing operations; and ii) to construct an environment to support ubiquitous on-demand studies in which students can study for themselves easily, at any time, and anywhere on campus or on the actual practice site using this e-Learning methodology. This paper presents a report of an actual lecture class conducted in using such training materials. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.