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Abstract
The traditional instructional delivery system in universities for a long time has been a classroom with a professor giving speeches to students and the students listening and taking notes. Communication between the professor and students has been identified to be a critical learning component in this delivery platform. Novelties in educational delivery systems like interactive and reflective schools of thought however, challenged the traditional attitudes to education.
Technology suggests many new characteristics that can be applied to make instruction more interesting to learners. It is usually supposed that new technologies make modifications in instruction. Many proponents of E-learning consider that everyone should be prepared with basic knowledge of technology, as well as utilize it as a mean for getting educational aims. As an outcome of this, many universities have used E-learning in a main way.
The necessity for academic and technical knowledge to teach utilizing the Internet has appeared, and this knowledge is becoming core proficiency for many professors. Some scholars have predicted that the traditional classroom will vanish. E-learning has entered the instruction as well as the corporate world in a main way and it also completes the traditional delivery styles. It has enabled the traditional educational patterns like distance learning.
E-learning has become a common style of providing educational materials in higher education by universities in every part of the world. Because of these changes there is an increasing need for flexible delivery of education. All these models or methods hold that it is crucial to produce the learner’s motivation and enhance their knowledge and skills. For this reason, numerous computer-based learning environments should be constructed.
E-learning is a teaching strategy, which helps the students to acquire, organize, and remember incoming knowledge more effectively. E-learning is defined in a simple way as the combination of technology and education. In nursing education, the key concepts are the most used method of teaching knowledge and skills either through lecture, demonstration, case studies or clinical assignments. E-learning delivery method provides students with various resources and activities. These activities and resources assist the students to remember complex relationships and to apply theory to the clinical area.
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of E-learning on nursing students’ knowledge retention and skills regarding care of mechanically ventilated patients
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