By the end of 2009, all nursing courses had converted to the blended learning environment. To help nursing faculties better understand the concept of the blended learning model, the university described its blended learning model into two parts: 1) the traditional face-to-face teaching part, where students meet their instructors, typically once or twice a week. Classroom learning activities include clinical case study analysis, quizzes, exams, instructional games, mannequin based simulations, videos, exam practice questions, discussions, and question and answers; 2) the e-learning part, where all the teaching content is designed and pre-recorded by professional course developers. Students can access that Flash-based content 24/7 during the entire …show more content…
Interviews from the faculty members suggested that there could be initial resistance from students on taking the e-learning content outside of class. Pop quizzes at the beginning of each face-to-face class helped motivate students to complete the e-learning portion at home prior coming to class. (Jinyuan, Ming-Hsiu, Zhigang, & Lorentz,