A systematic review of online education initiatives to develop students remote caring skills and practices

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Table 1. Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

Focused on the education of undergraduate and/or graduate students in the caring profession disciplines Described current strategies to offer online learning designed to prepare students to operate in emerging digital economies Reported on the impact of implementing these strategies including student and teacher perspectives, learning outcomes, capacity of students to develop career skills and competencies, and patient or learner perspectives

Focused on continuing education of professionals currently in practice Commentaries, editorials, letters or non-systematic reviews that do not report on outcomes or impact associated with online education Published over 10 years ago Non-English language studies

Figure 1. Data extraction items.

Figure 2. PRISMA flow diagram.

Figure 3. Study characteristics.

Figure 4. Summary of course objectives, instruction, assessment and technologies.