Debate: a strategy for increasing interaction in audio teleconferencing

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Increased demand tor audio teleconferenced undergraduate nursing courses for registered nurses in New Brunswick, Canada, has resulted in nurse educators being challenged to meet the needs of adult learners within the constraints of this technology In this paper the problem of limited interaction among adult nursing students in a teleconferenced course is examined in light of the theoretical frameworks of adult education and distance education. The effects of implementing debate as a learning strategy to increase participation are discussed The debate process increased site to site interaction and encouraged nurses to consider pragmatic issues from new perspectives

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