Faculty teaching time: A comparison of web-based and face-to-face graduate nursing courses

Katherine M. Andersen, Melissa D. Avery

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Abstract

Web-based education brings a new dimension to the issue of measuring faculty workload. Current literature reflects instructor concerns related to the time required to teach web-based courses (McAlpine, Lockerbie, Ramsay & Beaman 2002; Sellani & Harrington, 2002; Smith, Ferguson & Caris, 2001). This descriptive, comparative study seeks to determine the time required to teach web-based graduate nursing courses and compare that to teaching similar courses in the face-to-face setting. Utilizing time records previously collected as part of a federally funded grant, data from 11 web-based and five face-to-face graduate level nursing courses were analyzed. Although a statistically significant difference in teaching time requirements was not demonstrated, several interesting trends did appear. Examples include differences related to preparation time and the division of teacher time while teaching web-based as opposed to face-to-face courses. Future research and continued data collection related to faculty workload and time usage will be needed as web-based courses become a growing part of graduate nursing education.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number2
JournalInternational Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
Volume5
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008

Keywords

  • Faculty workload
  • Graduate education
  • Nursing
  • Web-based education

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