DEVELOPING A DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The development of digital learning environments can contribute to nursing education more participative, providing the teacher and students collaborative materials, content and simulations that can be used according to their needs and learning rhythm. Objective: To describe the process of developing a learning environment as a resource to assist the teacher in training professional education students mid-level nursing. Method: For the development of the learning environment was used model that features four sequential phases of software development: scope definition, planning, production and implementation, which facilitates the construction didactically. Results: The definition of the scope was performed based on the results of a previous study that identified the learning needs of students of vocational education average level in Ribeirão Preto/SP. So we chose to address Vital Signs relating them to some aspects of human anatomy and physiology. The multimedia system features built for WEB full interactivity level simulation with built through scenarios and character in two-dimensional animation (2D). It was organized in theoretical module and a simulation module. Conclusion: It is expected that the digital environment produced learning can add knowledge to the student of vocational education average level in nursing as well as being used by the teacher as a teaching resource, facilitating the understanding of abstract content.