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• Title: Do You Feel Like You Belong? an On-Line Versus Face-To-Face Pilot Study (Report)
• Author : Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science
• Release Date : January 01, 2006
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 216 KB

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ABSTRACT The use of the Internet for on-line educational purposes has grown over the past decade. More than 40% of college courses use on-line resources compared to only 11 % in 1995 (Green, 2000). Nurses, especially nurses pursuing graduate degrees, are requesting that more courses be taught on-line. Pedagogy principles of good teaching practices identified by Chickering and Gamson (1987) include, among other things, encouraging contact between students and faculty, and encouraging communication and cooperation among students. It is this author's belief that students need to feel connected and experience a sense of belonging to be successful in their academic endeavors. According to Rogers (1990), the environmental energy field is integral with the human energy field. The energy field is a unifying concept, which can be perceived as class room or virtual environment. However, energy fields are boundaryless and coextensive. The purpose of this study was to examine similarities and differences in perceived boundaries as evidenced by sense of belonging in graduate nursing students taking an on- line versus face-to-face graduate research course. A descriptive comparative design was used. A convenience sample of 39, 10 online and 29 face-to-face students, participated in this study. No statistically significant differences were found between the two groups, indicating that both had a similar sense of belonging, thus supporting the concept that human and environmental fields are unboundaried. Establishing an environment where one feels connected is more important than the type of structural environment i.e., virtual versus brick and mortar. Students' ability to be integral with their academic environment and to experience a sense of belonging may be crucial to success.

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