Facilitation skills for trainers

Facilitation skills for nurses.

Using the person-centered approach, facilitation in this study was conceptualised as providing opportunities for personal growth in the patient, and operationalised in a skills workshop for 40 nurses from different hospitals in Gauteng. The first objective was to evaluate the workshop and the second to ascertain its effect on the participant's experienced performance. A combined quantitative an...

Substituting Virtual Reality Trainers for Inanimate Box Trainers Does Not Decrease Laparoscopic Skills Acquisition

OBJECTIVES Inanimate and virtual reality box training help in developing basic laparoscopic skills. The lack of tactile feedback and lack of reality may be a detriment when training with virtual reality trainers. This study examined the hypothesis that there is no difference in laparoscopic skills acquisition when virtual reality trainers are partially substituted for inanimate box trainers. ...

Automated Feedback Trainers for Perceptual-motor Skills Final Report

Virtual reality simulators: valuable surgical skills trainers or video games?

BACKGROUND Virtual reality (VR) and physical model (PM) simulators differ in terms of whether the trainee is manipulating actual 3-dimensional objects (PM) or computer-generated 3-dimensional objects (VR). Much like video games (VG), VR simulators utilize computer-generated graphics. These differences may have profound effects on the utility of VR and PM training platforms. In this study, we ai...

Century Skills: Student Facilitation of Meetings and Data for Teachers

This paper proposes providing teachers with real-time accurate and pedagogically-relevant information to assist students in the development of 21 Century skills, across subject areas, using a variety of technologies and data sources. We suggest that, while allowing students to practice skills such as meeting facilitation, recording activities both directly and indirectly (student and peer repor...