Professional Midwifery Education: Blended Teaching and Learning Approaches

摘要: Blended teaching and learning approaches are used in the postgraduate course of Graduate Diploma Midwifery for students who predominately women with family responsibilities residing metropolitan, regional, or rural Victoria, a major state Australia. The Virtual Maternity Clinic (VMC), virtual experience (VLE) research project, was implemented during trimester 2, 2009. purpose project to expand blend activities support their preparation professional practice. VMC includes four characters early pregnancy care provided by midwife. All enrolled midwifery courses (postgraduate undergraduate) at Deakin University were recruited participate two-phase, pre- post-use evaluation process related VMC. Findings from pre-evaluation included that 'had high expectations supporting learning. results post-evaluation indicated 'were very satisfied supported Future directions include further development