Nurse education and convergent information technologies.
This article concerns one of the main problems facing nurse education, that of meeting individualised learner needs. This endeavour is inescapable because of current trends in the curriculum, trends towards continuous assessment and more recently, advice from the English National Board (ENB) regarding continuous theoretical assessment. Computer assisted learning, it is suggested, can be helpful in nurturing individual learner progress. Sophisticated technologies are available to educationalists which develop individual learning strategies, but the cost of producing the necessary courseware is high, both in terms of money and tutor time. Hopefully a solution has been found as a project has been funded and is being run by the ENB allowing tutors to develop skills in this area of education.
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D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D012984:Software; D014742:Videodisc Recording