Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Subject "Emerging technologies"
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Informal mobile learning in nurse education and practice in remote areas-a case study from rural South Africa
(Elsevier, 2014)BACKGROUND: With the proliferation of portable digital technology, mobile learning is becoming increasingly popular in nursing education and practice. Most of the research in this field has been concentrated on small-scale ... -
Ownership and attitudes towards technology use in physiotherapy students from seven countries
(Elsevier, 2017)PURPOSE: To assess differences in prerequisites to blended learning such as technology use and Internet access in an international sample of physiotherapy students from Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Luxembourg, Sudan, ... -
Undergraduate nurses reflections on Whatsapp use in improving primary health care education
(Curationis, 2015-08)Background: The global use of mobile devices with their connectivity capacity, and integrated with the affordances of social media networks, provides a resource-rich platform for innovative student-directed learning ... -
The use of a wiki to facilitate collaborative learning in a South African physiotherapy department
(South African Society of Physiotherapy, 2012)The dominant form of teaching in higher education remains the lecture, even though evidence suggests that it alone is inadequate to facilitate the development of the higher order thinking skills required in clinical practice. ... -
Using Google Drive to facilitate a blended approach to authentic learning
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)While technology has the potential to create opportunities for transformative learning in higher education, it is often used to merely reinforce didactic teaching that aims to control access to expert knowledge. Instead, ...