Authors:
Laura Morente
1
and
Francisco J. Veredas
2
Affiliations:
1
Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería and Diputación Provincial de Málaga, Spain
;
2
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Keyword(s):
Pressure Ulcer, e-Learning, Adaptive Tutorial Systems, Image Processing, Computational Intelligence, Nursing Informatics.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Cloud Computing
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
e-Health
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Medical and Nursing Informatics
;
Platforms and Applications
Abstract:
Pressure ulcers (PrU) are considered as one of the most challenging problems that Nursing professionals have to deal with in their daily practice. Nowadays, the education on PrUs is manly based on traditional lecturing, seminars and face-to-face instruction, sometimes with the support of photographs of wounds being used as teaching material. This traditional educational methodology suffers from some important limitations, which could affect the efficacy of the learning process. This current study has been designed to introduce information and communication technologies (ICT) in the education on PrU for undergraduate students, with the main objective of evaluating the advantages an disadvantages of using ICT, by comparing the learning results obtained from using an e-learning tool with those from a traditional teaching methodology. In order to meet this major objective, a web-based learning system named ePULab has been designed and developed as an adaptive e-learning tool for the auto
nomous acquisition of knowledge on PrU evaluation. In this article, the ePULab software is described in details and the general results from an experimental educational validation study are also presented and analysed.
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