ePULab - An Adaptive e-Learning Tool for Pressure Ulcer Evaluation

Laura Morente, Francisco J. Veredas

2013

Abstract

Pressure ulcers (PrU) are considered as one of the most challenging problems that Nursing professionals have to deal with in their daily practice. Nowadays, the education on PrUs is manly based on traditional lecturing, seminars and face-to-face instruction, sometimes with the support of photographs of wounds being used as teaching material. This traditional educational methodology suffers from some important limitations, which could affect the efficacy of the learning process. This current study has been designed to introduce information and communication technologies (ICT) in the education on PrU for undergraduate students, with the main objective of evaluating the advantages an disadvantages of using ICT, by comparing the learning results obtained from using an e-learning tool with those from a traditional teaching methodology. In order to meet this major objective, a web-based learning system named ePULab has been designed and developed as an adaptive e-learning tool for the autonomous acquisition of knowledge on PrU evaluation. In this article, the ePULab software is described in details and the general results from an experimental educational validation study are also presented and analysed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Morente L. and J. Veredas F. (2013). ePULab - An Adaptive e-Learning Tool for Pressure Ulcer Evaluation . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-37-2, pages 155-160. DOI: 10.5220/0004187901550160

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf13,
author={Laura Morente and Francisco J. Veredas},
title={ePULab - An Adaptive e-Learning Tool for Pressure Ulcer Evaluation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={155-160},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004187901550160},
isbn={978-989-8565-37-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013)
TI - ePULab - An Adaptive e-Learning Tool for Pressure Ulcer Evaluation
SN - 978-989-8565-37-2
AU - Morente L.
AU - J. Veredas F.
PY - 2013
SP - 155
EP - 160
DO - 10.5220/0004187901550160