Abstract:
An electronic book is developed as educational material for improving learning and teaching process. It is very interesting academic instruments because it consisted of text and image based publication in digital form. Learning and teaching method using electronic book may provide higher efficiency than traditional teaching methods. Principle and Technique of Wound Care are being taught to undergraduate nursing students. However, there is no electronic book on Principle and Technique of Wound Care. The purposes of this study were 1) to create and testing electronic book on Principles and Technique of would care base on the efficiency criteria of 75/75, 2) to compare students learning achievement of nursing students who approached by electronic book and traditional teaching method, and 3) to identify nursing student satisfaction on using electronic book. The electronic book on Principles and technique was developed by the researchers, and it was development with 30 nursing students who studied in second year at Boromarajonani College of Nursing Ratchaburi. More 54 nursing students in the same year were randomly selected to participate in this study. While 27 participants were recruited to use the electronic book as an experimental group, other 27 students were selected to participate with traditional teaching as a control group. Mean, Standard deviation, and t-test were undertaken.
The results found that the efficiency of the electronic book on Principles
and Technique of Wound Care passed the efficiency criteria (E1/E2=77.22/76.22 ). Learning achievements of experimental group were significantly higher than that of control group (P<.01). The mean total student satisfaction score on electronic book was 4.71 (SD=0.50); Content of electronic book had a highest satisfaction score (mean= 4.8, SD=0.43 ), and followed by techniques used to development the electronic book (mean= 4.61, SD=0.56). This electronic book has been developed and validated for learning and teaching process, and while it displays very good efficiency criteria, and students satisfaction was high. The electronic book on Principles and Technique of Wound Care appears to be a good educational instrument that is suitable for use in learning and teaching method for nursing students.