Understanding and enhancing the learning experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse nursing students in an Australian bachelor of nursing program

Enhancing Students' Learning Through Simulation: Dealing With Diverse, Large Cohorts

“…Nursing education increasingly seeks to address culturally diverse students, both as a result of globalised higher education, but also as part of a 'pipeline' that produces a diverse nursing workforce for a culturally diverse population. This is manifest in Australia, with an emphasis on particular regions as sources of international students (South East Asia particularly China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines) (Jeong et al, 2011;San Miguel & Rogan, 2009). Across different cohorts, students may have differing levels of prior clinical experience.…”

“…Because simulation acts as a bridge between the classroom and the world of practice, it must account not only for students' varying expectations but also of their educational experiences and clinical practice. Asian students generally prefer transmission of knowledge through reading textbooks and attending lectures, are reticent to ask questions of or challenge the teacher (San Miguel & Rogan, 2009) and search for the right answer rather than an appropriate response (Jeong et al, 2011). Hence participating in contemporary educational strategies such as group work and simulations challenge their traditional norms and expectations.…”

“…Hence participating in contemporary educational strategies such as group work and simulations challenge their traditional norms and expectations. Further, many international students prefer to observe rather than participate (Jeong et al, 2011) which poses additional challenges when facilitating simulations (Kelly, 2014).…”

Preparing Australian nurse educators to teach international students

“…Australia is the third largest provider of international education with overseas students comprising over 18 percent of the total student enrollment in Australian universities [1,2] . While Australian curricula is designed to promote global perspectives, there are educational ideologies that need to be considered when teaching students from different cultural backgrounds, to ensure positive student outcomes and experiences.…”

“…The preparedness of academics, teaching international students, has not necessarily kept abreast with the growth in universities' international student enrollments [1,2,7,8] . There is a perpetual focus across all Australian universities to ensure the quality of academic's teaching and ultimately student's learning.…”