Deliberations of Nursing Academics towards Distance Education

摘要

Introduction: There are different ways of upgrading knowledge and competency among thelearners, distance education is believed to be a valid method for enhancing competencies.Methods: In order to assess the practicability in terms of availability of informationcommunication technology as well as commitments of the learners in conducting distanceeducation, a feasibility study was conducted in three nursing institutes of Institute of Medicine,which were selected purposively. For data collection structured instrument was used foradministrators and self-administer semi-structured questionnaire for nursing academicians.Results: It was revealed that all the campus administrators were ready to take part in thisnew initiative and willing to collaborate during implementation of the project. Cent percentof nursing academicians were enthusiastic to take part in this project, among them 95%were interested in learning proposal writing for qualitative study. Eighty percent of them hadcomputer along with Internet facilities at their work place, and 80% had their own computeralong with internet facilities at work place, while only 50% had their own computer. However,66% of them did not have advance knowledge in handling multi-medias and computer skills.Conclusion: Administrators as well nursing academicians are willing to collaborate inthis distance education project, and nursing academicians are enthusiastic in developingcompetencies in conducting qualitative research via distance education on their own leisuretime without hampering in their scheduled activities.