Developing CAI system and courseware for nurse education

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The purposes of this study are : 1) utilizing multimedia computer technology, to develop/create CAI courseware to help nursing students learn the basic knowledge and skills that all the nurses should have mastered before starting their job, and 2) to prove the validity of the multimedia CAI courseware in nurse-education.Incorporating multimedia materials into the courseware was the most time-consuming and technically difficult part of the project. It took much more time than expected to develop and revise and improve hardware(measurement tools and recording equipment, and the like) and programming software.The following are the finding from the classroom use.1) all the students studies and worked with the CAI courseware thus developed mastered 100% the materials covered in the courseware, thus achieving the educational goal.2) With the courseware aiming at the mastery of skills such as measuring blood-pressure, students can repeat the work with the courseware as many times as they like. This gives the students the feeling of having really worked and of satisfaction of achieving the satisfactory result.3) After studying with the courseware on national examination of nurses have shown a remarkable improvement of their test scores.4) No significant difference was found in the effectiveness of the CAI courseware among universities, colleges and schools for nurses. This shows the usefulness of CAI courseware at all institutions.