Innovative techniques provide a teaching strategy to improve education in biomedical sciences for nursing students [1]. With augmented reality (AR) technology, elements in the physical environment can be enriched or supplemented by computer-generated sensory inputs such as text, images, 3-dimensional (3D) graphics, and audio. AR has been paradigmatically applied worldwide to education of different disciplines, making some contributions to teaching and learning [2]. However, AR products on the market mainly focus on primary or secondary education where the pleasurable aspects of AR are promoted [3]. Although acceptance of using AR in healthcare education was reported [4], the actual impacts of AR applications in the training of healthcare professionals have not been well-studied [5]. In view of the potential advantages of integrating AR into nursing education, such as a better visualization of body structures [6], a survey was conducted to specifically assess the effectiveness of AR in improving the quality of biomedical education as perceived by nursing students.
{"title":"Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Biomedical Education with Augmented Reality","authors":"Chun-Wai Ma","doi":"10.18314/GJBS.V4I1.1851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18314/GJBS.V4I1.1851","url":null,"abstract":"Innovative techniques provide a teaching strategy to improve education in biomedical sciences for nursing students [1]. With augmented reality (AR) technology, elements in the physical environment can be enriched or supplemented by computer-generated sensory inputs such as text, images, 3-dimensional (3D) graphics, and audio. AR has been paradigmatically applied worldwide to education of different disciplines, making some contributions to teaching and learning [2]. However, AR products on the market mainly focus on primary or secondary education where the pleasurable aspects of AR are promoted [3]. Although acceptance of using AR in healthcare education was reported [4], the actual impacts of AR applications in the training of healthcare professionals have not been well-studied [5]. In view of the potential advantages of integrating AR into nursing education, such as a better visualization of body structures [6], a survey was conducted to specifically assess the effectiveness of AR in improving the quality of biomedical education as perceived by nursing students.","PeriodicalId":340290,"journal":{"name":"Integrative Biomedical Sciences","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128356649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}