Lessons Learned from Nursing Students’ Experience in Online Learning During The Outbreak of The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19)

Abstract

          Like every nation in the world, Thailand faced the challenge of staying connected when faced with the challenges of the COVID-19 epidemic. The nursing education system, like many others, was forced to adapt its teaching methods to enable effective learning to continue. Online teaching was widely adopted; this is a system in which nursing instructors organized learning and teaching processes for nursing students that were delivered via the internet. The aim of this article is to explore the lessons learned from nursing students' experiences of online teaching during the COVID-19 epidemic through group discussions and content analysis. Four issues were uncovered by this analysis: 1) anxiety and stress resulted from online study, 2) relationships levels between teachers and students were reduced by use of the online platform, 3) the Internet signal strength and surrounding environment each had significant effect during online teaching sessions, and 4) the development of media and learning activities to encourage motivation in online teaching is essential to the academic achievement of nursing students during online teaching, which was not different from normal teaching. This result has led to development of improved online teaching skills and has created the need for nursing instructor competencies in use of multimedia online, including provision of learning resources to learners in order for those learners to be satisfied with the learning experience and to achieve effective self-learning.