Nurses’ motivations for Web‐based learning and the role of Internet self‐efficacy

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate clinical nurses’ Internet self‐efficacy and motivations toward Web‐based learning. The sample consisted of 256 volunteer nurses from one selected medical centre in Taiwan. This study used the Internet Self‐efficacy Survey (ISS) and the Motivations about Web‐based Continuing Learning Survey (MWCL) for the investigation. The results showed that the ISS and MWCL were deemed to be sufficiently reliable for assessing nurses’ Internet self‐efficacy and motivations toward Web‐based learning. It was also found that the nurses’ motivations toward this approach to learning were predicted by their self‐efficacy in terms of the Internet as well as their service years; that is, nurses with higher Internet self‐efficacy and less working experience tended to display higher motivations for Web‐based continuing learning.

Keywords:

• Web‐based continuing learning
• Internet self‐efficacy
• motivation
• nurse

Acknowledgement

Funding of this research work was supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, under grant numbers NSC 96‐2511‐S‐011‐002‐MY3 and NSC 98‐2628‐S‐243‐001‐MY3.

Notes

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