Nursing Student's Perceived Barriers, Achievements, and Satisfaction to Blackboard Utilization as a Digital Platform.

M. Weheida, Sohier; Anwar Niazy, Rowaida; Mahrous Abdel Hamid Mohamed, Badria; Ibrahim Badawy Othman, Amina; Ali Riad, Neima

doi:10.21608/ejhc.2021.194022

Nursing Student's Perceived Barriers, Achievements, and Satisfaction to Blackboard Utilization as a Digital Platform.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University

² Information System lecturer, International technical female college

³ Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University

10.21608/ejhc.2021.194022

Abstract

Overview: On line, learning has always been a debatable topic, yet during COVID-19. The students
have no choice to choose online or traditional learning. Ministry of education has forced all students
in Saudi Arabia to study through blackboard as a digital platform to protect them from COVID-19.
The outcome of online learning has not been investigated as well as student's readiness, acceptance
and environmental infrastructure. Aim: identify nursing student's perceived barriers, achievement
and satisfaction to blackboard utilization as a digital platform. Design: exploratory descriptive
research design was used. Setting: college of applied medical science, affiliated to Jouf University.
Tools: four tools were used, 1- Nursing student's socio demographic characteristics, 2- Nursing
students perceived achievements to black board digital platform, 3- Nursing Students perceived
satisfaction to blackboard digital platform, 4- Nursing student's perceived barriers to blackboard
digital platform. Result: blackboard was found to be unfamiliar way by more than half of the
students (56.41). However, the finding conveyed that students with high computer experience had
few obstacles to learn than those students with no computer experience, there were positive
correlations with high statistical significant between all of sub-scales of black board perception
regards perceived achievements, satisfaction and barriers. Conclusions: the study highlights nursing
student's perceived barriers (hard method), need training, make students psychological disturbed.
Moreover, it facilitates student's contribution & frustrates them to improve learning skills.

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