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What Would You Do?: Engaging Remote Learners Through Stop-Action Videos
Caroline Littleton1, Victoria Bolus, Tara Wood
1Instructor (Mss Littleton and Bolus), Assistant Professor (Dr Wood), Instructional Design Specialist (Mr Clark), and Associate Professor (Drs Wingo and Watts), School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Nurse educators can enhance remote learning engagement and critical thinking using stop-action video vignettes. These unfolding case studies offer versatile activities for virtual settings, improving student knowledge application.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Education
- Educational Technology
Background:
- Engaging remote learners presents challenges for nurse educators.
- The rise of virtual learning necessitates innovative teaching strategies.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify learning experiences that enhance critical thinking for virtual nursing students.
- To explore methods for effective knowledge application in online education.
Main Methods:
- Utilizing stop-action video vignettes as unfolding case studies.
- Employing technology to facilitate critical thinking and active learning in virtual settings.
- Integrating video-based discussion, text-based discussion, and branching matrices.
Main Results:
- Stop-action video vignettes can be effectively used in virtual learning environments.
- The method supports active learning and critical thinking development.
- Versatile application through different discussion formats and branching matrices.
Conclusions:
- Stop-action video vignettes with unfolding case studies are effective for engaging students.
- This approach enhances learning and critical thinking in virtual nursing education.
- Offers a versatile tool for nurse educators in online settings.
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