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. 2024 Apr 15;10(8):e29533.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29533. eCollection 2024 Apr 30.

Nurse Educator's experiences and challenges with online teaching: A qualitative descriptive study

Monirah Albloushi  1 , Aisha Namshan Aldawsari  2 , Reem Alghamdi  1 , Badr Alenazy  3 , Hana Alanazi  4 , Hissah Almutairi  5
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Nurse Educator's experiences and challenges with online teaching: A qualitative descriptive study

Monirah Albloushi et al. Heliyon. .

Abstract

Introduction: During the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, many educational institutions faced the challenge of providing and implementing online education. Despite this challenge, most adopted online education systems to ensure that the teaching and learning process continued. This study aimed to explore nursing educators' experiences related to adopting online-only teaching during the (COVID-19) pandemic, providing nursing students with the best learning experiences, and preparing faculty members to teach online.

Method: This qualitative descriptive study was conducted using semi-structured interviews from June 2020 to September 2020. Using purposive sampling, 12 nursing educators in Saudi Arabia who taught university courses online during COVID-19 were recruited. They were selected based on their teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate degree nursing programs.

Results: Thematic analysis revealed an overarching theme-faculty challenges-and three sub-themes-emotional, technical, and educational challenges. Secondary sub-themes comprised four challenges that the nursing faculty faced-using online platforms, accessibility, cheating, and dealing with students' clinical practice-which were found to be interconnected and interrelated.

Discussion: Most nursing educators had to shift to online distance teaching suddenly; thus, they faced several challenges related to online teaching, e-learning literacy, classroom management, and connectivity as they transitioned to digitalization. To address these issues, this study recommends that university management organize training programs for educators to help them more effectively conduct online classes. These findings will be valuable for universities, policymakers, designers, and producers to enhance the implementation of their e-learning systems.

Keywords: Challenges; Nurse educator; Online education; Qualitative research; Saudi Arabia.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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