Used for the short talk for the lecturers at Nursing Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences UNIMAS. It focuses on some basic "changes" that can be done to increase the interactivity in their lecturers.

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21st Century Teaching Approaches
for Nursing Education
By Chuah Kee Man
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
kmchuah@cans.unimas.my | www.chuahkeeman.com

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Prelude Questions
Reflect on your experiences in teaching your
students (Nursing programme).
 What have you been doing so far (in terms of
teaching approaches)?
 Are you doing it right? Or there are
problems?
 What do you think can be improved?

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The old way?

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The new way?

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Not much changes?
Common Approaches:
Lectures Tutorials Demo
+ Technology = 21st Century Approaches
(e.g.Web 2.0 tools)
Technology allows better personalization and changing the role of the
teacher from sole provider of content to a facilitator that spark the
students’ learning experience.

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Why 21st Century Approaches?
 Changing nature of students (increased diversity)
 Changing understanding of how students learn
 Changing nature of teaching (expectations)
 Changing nature of outcomes assessment

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21st Century Approaches
The Benefits
 Encourage more interactions
 Cultivate good mentoring
 Promote active learning/thinking
 More learner-centred
 Focus on learning outcomes

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But remember….
"Technology is just a tool. In
terms of getting the kids working
together and motivating them, the
teacher is the most important.
And good teachers,always use
good tools”.
Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft

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21st Century Teacher
Great teachers have a repertory of skills and possibilities and
knowledge, but their skill is to apply it here and now.
~ Sir Ken Robinson
Watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUatQQYha3w

10. Ideas to

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21st Century Approaches
The Starting Point
 Cut down on lecture time (if it’s 2 hours,
reduce it to about 30 minutes max, use the
remaining time for activities or meaningful ).
 Get them involved more. Never mind if
they are “passive at first” continue to guide
them until they change from being “reactive”
to “active”
 Engage by incorporating “fun yet
meaningful” activities (e.g. use interesting
case studies) – use good tools to support
this.

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21st Century Approaches
Improving your approaches by
including:
 Pre-class activities – activation of
interest and triggering the foundations
 In-class activities – reinforcement of
content and understanding
 Post-class activities – enhancement of
understanding and formative assessment

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Online Collaborations
Good as post-class activities
 Brainstorming – give the a
specific topic to brainstorm
right after class.
(Padlet.com; Popplet.com)
 Mind mapping – can be
used to outline important
content covered
(mind42.com)

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Mind42.com

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Online Curation
Good as pre-class activities
 Compile necessary
materials for a specific
topic (e.g. 5 articles for
 Summarise them if needed
(Storify.com, Blendspace.com)

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Storify.com

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Blendspace.com

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Online Publishing
Good as post-class activities
 Publish what they have
learned in a more
interesting way (e.g.
posters, digital
magazine/newsletter)
 Slideshare.net, Issuu.com

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Slideshare.com

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Supplementary Contents
 Use materials readily
available as open-
educational resources as
supplementary to your
content.
 Videos on specific topics.
(E.g. Khan Academy)

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Khanacademy.com
More guided and with given space to ask questions

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Demonstrations
 Allow students to video-
record the demonstration
(note the rules & regulations
e.g. don’t show faces of the
patients).
 Produce a procedural outline
of the demonstrated steps. -
they can even reproduce a
video on it.

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So….
 Tweak your approaches gradually by
including more students’ involvements.
 Give some levels of autonomy to the
students to “personalise” their learning.
Believe that everyone can learn, just not in the
same way or on the same day.
 Let them enjoy the learning experience and
not endure it.
 Remember, students don’t care about what
you know until they know you care.

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Thank you.
Questions?