Facilitating decision making in authentic contexts: an SVVR-based experiential flipped learning approach for professional training

ABSTRACT

Facilitating decision making in authentic contexts is an important educational objective of professional training. To enable learners to have more opportunities to practice in authentic contexts under the guidance of instructors, the flipped learning mode of shifting the lectures to be the pre-class activity with the presentation of digital media has gradually been receiving attention. However, the conventional flipped learning mostly uses videos to present teaching content. In such a learning environment with one-way information and lack of experience, it is not easy for most learners to experience the actual situation encountered in the nursing procedure, which affects their judgment and performance when dealing with actual scenarios. To solve this problem, the present study adopted spherical video-based virtual reality (SVVR) to provide an experiential learning mode in flipped learning. To verify the effects of this teaching mode, this study conducted an experiment in a blood transfusion safety training course. The experimental group used the SVVR-based experiential flipped learning (SVVR-EFL) mode, while the control group used the conventional flipped learning mode. The results showed that using the SVVR-EFL mode not only enhanced new nursing staff’s learning achievement, but also increased their decision-making performance, meta-cognition tendency, problem-solving tendency and classroom engagement.

KEYWORDS:

• Flipped learning
• virtual reality
• experiential learning
• decision making
• professional training

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This study is supported in part by Tri-Service General Hospital [contract number TSGH-A-109005] and Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [contract numbers MOST-109-2511-H-011-002-MY3 and MOST-108-2511-H-011-005-MY3].

Notes on contributors

Hsin Huang

Dr Hsin Huang is a Head Nurse in the Tri-Service General Hospital, as well as an assistant professor at the National Defense Medical Center school of Medicine. Her interests include technology-enhanced learning and nursing education.

Gwo-Jen Hwang

Dr Gwo-Jen Hwang is a chair professor at the Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. His research interests include mobile learning, digital game-based learning, flipped classrooms and AI in education.

Shao-Chen Chang

Dr Shao-Chen Chang is an assistant professor at the International Bachelor Program in Informatics and the Department of Information Communication, Yuan Ze University, His research interests include mobile learning, digital game-based learning, flipped classroom and virtual education.