Crowdsourcing in Nursing Education: A Possibility of Creating a Personalized Online Learning Environment for Student Nurses in the Post-COVID Era

Abstract

The widespread COVID-19 pandemic has not only posed a major health threat in Taiwan but also has challenged the nursing pedagogy. Both academia and the education industry are calling for a radical change of nursing pedagogy. Under such a call, the present study investigates an online collaborative knowledge co-construction mechanism—Crowdsourcing Collaborative Learning Strategy (CCLS)—to help student nurses acquire and practice functional knowledge on clinical operations targeted to the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) at anytime and anywhere via the internet service. A t-test on the pre-and-post test between the control and experimental group explained the effectiveness of the CCLS online platform. Two questionnaires were used to explore students’ perception of the effectiveness and the usefulness of the CCLS online platform. The findings suggested the CCLS online platform can help students to revisit their clinical performance via the recorded videos, facilitate student nurses’ self-reflection on their performance, and help student nurses to minimize the academic-practice gap. Participants in this study scored the CCLS online platform as helpful and easy to use during the learning process.

Self‐regulation and shared regulation in collaborative learning in adaptive digital learning environments: A systematic review of empirical studies

“…For example, Ouyang et al ( 2023) analysed multi-level characteristics (individual-group) of collaborative knowledge construction (CKC) and classified learner behaviours into CKC states, to enable personalized scaffolding opportunities. Within the same topic of CKC, Geng et al (2021) used an online collaborative knowledge co-construction mechanism to facilitate student nurses' self-reflection on their performance and help student nurses. examined whether different levels of collaboration could be reliably identified and characterized between a learner and pedagogical agent to foster goal-and subgoal-setting in collaborative learning.…”

Implementation and evaluation of crowdsourcing in global health education

“…On the CCLS, students can propose their questions and answer others' questions to learn and obtain customized knowledge from teachers. Compared with the traditional teacher-centered lecture approach, this model had achieved better results [ 13 ]. Crowdsourcing can also improve the traditional teaching model by collecting students' questions and targeted teaching [ 15 ].…”

“…To promote students' engagement and improve understanding, prior studies have suggested applying problem-based learning [ 10 ], flipped classroom [ 11 ] and participatory teaching [ 12 ]. More recently, crowdsourcing as a novel form of solution collection [ 13 ], characterized by user-centered, high creativity and flexibility [ 14 ], has been used in course delivery [ 15 ]. Compared with aforementioned teaching models, crowdsourcing has the advantages of high flexibility and strong application-orientation.…”

Factors Related to Nursing Students’ Competence in Pandemic Situation

“…The current social distancing protocol provides obstacles to the educational system. The quality of nursing education directly impacts the clinical care that nurses offer patients in their job (Geng et al, 2021;Smith et al, 2021).…”