title: Understanding Doctoral Nursing Students' Experiences of Blended Learning: A Qualitative Study.
abstract: The concept of blended learning in the field of nursing and medicine has been accepted. Blended learning has been extensively used thanks to the development of communication technologies and the availability of Internet services. Meanwhile, experiences-based research, by all accounts, can help the expansion of such a learning modality. Therefore, this study was designed to explain nursing doctoral students' experiences of blended learning. To attain this goal, a descriptive phenomenology method was used to illustrate experiences as they are experienced by the participants in the study. With regard to the nature of the investigated phenomena and the existing methods for the inductive analysis, Colaizzi's method of data analysis was used. The findings of the study led to the discovery of three main themes: "failure", "synergy" and "specific interaction". Each of the themes has been further divided into some sub-themes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Educations, Medical Education Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran. AND Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
authors.forename: Abdolhossein
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Emami Sigaroudi
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Shahrzad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghiyasvandian
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nikbakht Nasabadi
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007492:Iran; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013338:Students, Nursing
keywords: Blended learning; Descriptive phenomenology; Doctoral student; Experiences; Nursing