TY - JOUR
T1 - Nursing students' and faculty members' experiences of online education during COVID-19 across Southeast Asia
T2 - A Photovoice study
AU - Kunaviktikul, Wipada
AU - Ang, Emily
AU - Baridwan, Ns Syamikar
AU - Bernal, Alexandra Belle
AU - Dones, Luz Barbara P.
AU - Flores, Jo Leah
AU - Freedman-Doan, Rachel
AU - Klunklin, Areewan
AU - Lee, Wan Ling
AU - Lin, Chia Chin
AU - Luk, Tzu Tsun
AU - Nguyen, Anh T.H.
AU - Nurumal, Mohd Said
AU - Setiawan, Agus
AU - Sumaiyah Jamaluddin, Thandar Soe
AU - Huy, T. Q.
AU - Tungpunkom, Patraporn
AU - Wati, Ns Dwi Nurviyandari Kusuma
AU - Xu, Xinyi
AU - Shorey, Shefaly
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the South East and East Asian Nursing Education and Research Network and supported by the China Medical Board .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extraordinary disruptions to education systems globally, forcing a rapid switch from conventional to online education. Although some qualitative studies have been carried out exploring the online education experiences of nursing students and faculty members during the COVID-19 pandemic, to our knowledge, no study has used the Photovoice approach. Objectives: To explore the experiences of nursing students and faculty members as related to online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: A descriptive qualitative design using Photovoice was adopted. Setting: The study took place across five countries and one city in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Hong Kong). Participants: Fifty-two nursing students and twenty-eight nursing faculty members who participated in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Each participant submitted one photo substantiated with written reflections. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Ethical approval was obtained from institution-specific ethics boards. Results: Three themes and eleven sub-themes emerged from the data. The three main themes were: 1) Psychological roadblocks to online education; 2) Developing resilience despite adversities; and 3) Online education: What worked and what did not. Conclusion: Through Photovoice, the reflections revealed that nursing students and faculty members were generally overwhelmed with the online education experience. At the same time, participants were satisfied with the flexibility and convenience, opportunities for professional and personal development and safety afforded by online education. However, concerns over academic integrity, practical skills and clinical competencies, engagement and participation, the duality of technology and social isolation out-shadowed the advantages. It is worthwhile to explore the concerns raised to enhance online education across the nursing curriculum.
AB - Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extraordinary disruptions to education systems globally, forcing a rapid switch from conventional to online education. Although some qualitative studies have been carried out exploring the online education experiences of nursing students and faculty members during the COVID-19 pandemic, to our knowledge, no study has used the Photovoice approach. Objectives: To explore the experiences of nursing students and faculty members as related to online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: A descriptive qualitative design using Photovoice was adopted. Setting: The study took place across five countries and one city in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Hong Kong). Participants: Fifty-two nursing students and twenty-eight nursing faculty members who participated in online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Each participant submitted one photo substantiated with written reflections. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Ethical approval was obtained from institution-specific ethics boards. Results: Three themes and eleven sub-themes emerged from the data. The three main themes were: 1) Psychological roadblocks to online education; 2) Developing resilience despite adversities; and 3) Online education: What worked and what did not. Conclusion: Through Photovoice, the reflections revealed that nursing students and faculty members were generally overwhelmed with the online education experience. At the same time, participants were satisfied with the flexibility and convenience, opportunities for professional and personal development and safety afforded by online education. However, concerns over academic integrity, practical skills and clinical competencies, engagement and participation, the duality of technology and social isolation out-shadowed the advantages. It is worthwhile to explore the concerns raised to enhance online education across the nursing curriculum.
KW - Nursing faculty
KW - Nursing students
KW - Online education
KW - Pandemic
KW - Photovoice
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105307
DO - 10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105307
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85125113781
SN - 0260-6917
VL - 111
JO - Nurse Education Today
JF - Nurse Education Today
M1 - 105307
ER -