Dos Santos, Luis Miguel, Kwee, Ching Ting Tany, Kwee, Ching Ting Tany, Hon, Po Yee
Woosong University, Daejeon, South Korea University of New South Wales, Australia University Preparation College, Australia University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Nurs Care
Online teaching and learning has become one of the popular education trends over the past few decades. Although many colleges and universities have already established online postgraduate programmes in nursing, students tended to attend traditional face-to-face programmes to gain knowledge from peer-to-peer interactions and hands-on experiences from their instructors. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, almost all postgraduate courses and programmes have moved online to meet the needs of the social distancing recommendation. In line with the Social Cognitive Career and Motivation Theory, this study aims to understand the experiences, decision-making processes, and feedback from a group of postgraduate students who decide to complete their Master of Science in Nursing degree online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purposive sampling strategy was employed to recruit five postgraduate students (N=5). Based on the qualitative research method and general inductive approach, semi-structured interview sessions, focus group activity, and member checking interview sessions were employed. The finding and results indicated that: 1) the same level of academic rigorousness, 2) university should establish online-based courses for postgraduate students, and 3) balanced schedule, were the top-three themes from the participants. The outcomes of this study provide recommendations and feedback to university leaders, department heads, university lecturers, government departments, and policymakers for the potential developments in online teaching, online degree, and online education for nontraditional, returning, evening, adult (NTREA), and postgraduate students who cannot attend the traditional face-to-face courses during the day time.
Dr. Dos Santos, Luis Miguel is an Assistant Professor at Woosong University, South Korea. He completed his doctorate at Northeastern University, United States. His research interests include career development, decision-making process, foreign language teaching and learning, online education, lived stories, narrative studies, human resources management, workforce shortage, public health development, nursing, technology teaching, qualitative research, social cognitive carer and motivation theory. He has published more than 120 academic works in journals, book chapters, monographs, and conferences. Kwee, Ching Ting Tany is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research interests include career and vocational issues, multicultural issues, human resources management, education and professional development. She has published and presented in various international conferences and serves as a reviewer in reputed journals. Leung, Yuk Lan is a Transnational Education Manager at University Preparation College, Australia. She completed her doctorate at Northeastern University, United States. Her research interests are in pedagogy, curriculum, children's health and wellbeing, environmental education in sustainability, and leadership in early childhood education. He has published more than 27 academic works in journals, book chapters, and conferences. She has been invited as an advisor for a three-year project of “Pre-school Children: Health Promoting Kindergarten” in Hong Kong. Hon, Po Yee is a MRes student at the University of Portsmouth, The United Kingdom. Her research interests include career and vocational issues, career development, decision-making process, English as a second language (ESL) teaching and learning, and human resources management.
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