摘要：The aim of nursing education is to foster in students the competence of applying integrated knowledge with
clinical skills to the application domains. In the traditional approach, in-class knowledge learning and clinical
skills training are usually conducted separately, such that the students might not be able to integrate the
knowledge and the skills in performing standard nursing procedures. Therefore, it is important to develop an
integrated curriculum for teaching standard operating procedures in physical assessment courses. In this study, a
context-aware mobile learning system is developed for nursing training courses. During the learning activities,
each student is equipped with a mobile device; moreover, sensing devices are used to detect whether the student
has conducted the operations on the correct location of the dummy patient¡¯s body for assessing the physical
status of the specified disease. The learning system not only guides individual students to perform each
operation of the physical assessment procedure on dummy patients, but also provides instant feedback and
supplementary materials to them if the operations or the operating sequence is incorrect. The experimental
results show that the students¡¯ learning outcomes are notably improved by utilizing the mobile learning system
for nursing training.
关键词：Mobile and ubiquitous learning, Sensing technology, Nursing education, Cognitive apprenticeship, Mastery learning
theory
