Informal mobile learning in nurse education and practice in remote areas. A case study from rural South Africa

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Brysiewicz, Petra
Walters, Fiona
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2014
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Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
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Nurse Education Today
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http://hdl.handle.net/11654/9387
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34
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11
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1398-1404
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Elsevier
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Hamburg
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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 projects in high income countries. Very little is known about the ways in which nurses and midwives use mobile technology in remote and resource poor areas in informal learning contexts in low and middle income countries. Objectives: To address this gap, this study investigates whether nurses use mobile phones as effective educational tools in marginalized and remote areas, and if so, how and why. Setting and Methods: In rural South Africa, 16 nurses who attended an advanced midwifery education program, facilitators and clinical managers were interviewed about their use of digital mobile technology for learning. Techniques of qualitative content analysis were used to examine the data.
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330 - Wirtschaft
005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten
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0260-6917
1532-2793
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PIMMER, Christoph, Petra BRYSIEWICZ, Fiona WALTERS und Sebastian LINXEN, 2014. Informal mobile learning in nurse education and practice in remote areas. A case study from rural South Africa. Nurse Education Today. 2014. Bd. 34, Nr. 11, S. 1398–1404. Verfügbar unter: http://hdl.handle.net/11654/9387
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