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ABSTRACT
The childbirth education training course aims to help nurses establish the basic ability to care for pregnant women. However, in traditional teaching, it is often difficult for learners to distinguish the meaning of different childbirth signs. While virtual reality (VR) may be connected in most people’s minds with videos designed for immersive entertainment, in fact its early purpose was for nursing education. Initial forms of Spherical Video-based Virtual Reality (SVVR) were used to prepare and train nursing students, pilots, and military personnel. In this paper, an exploratory study using social learning theory embedded in SVVR for childbirth education training is presented; moreover, the learning performances of nursing students who participated in SVVR classroom learning and those who learned with the traditional approach were compared. The experimental results show that, compared with the traditional instruction, the learning motivation and learning satisfaction of the students who learned with SVVR were better, showing the potential of this powerful medium for enhancing nursing students’ learning performance in the context of childbirth education.
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Ching-Yi Chang
Dr Ching-Yi Chang is an assistant professor at the Department of Nurse-Midwifery and Women Health, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. Her research interests include mobile learning, digital game-based learning, flipped classroom and medical education, nursing education.
Han-Yu Sung
Dr Han-Yu Sung is an assistant professor at the Department of Health Allied Education and E-Learning, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. Her research interests include mobile learning and digital game-based learning.
Jong-Long Guo
Dr Jong-Long Guo is a professor at the Department of Health Promotion and Health Education, College of Education, National Taiwan Normal University. His research interests include drug abuse, health education, health education and promotion, health promotion, life skills and science education.
Bieng-Yi Chang
Ms Bieng-Yi Chang is a MSN, RN Deputy Director, at the Department of Nursing, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, School of Nursing, Instructor and a PhD student at the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. Her research interests include mobile learning and flipped-based classroom learning and medical education, nursing education.
Fan-Ray Kuo
Dr Fan-Ray Kuo is a doctoral researcher at the Program of Learning Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University. His research interests include technology-enhanced learning in medical education, flipped-based classroom learning in nursing education and Learning analytic.