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Online education in social work, effectiveness, benefits, and challenges: a scoping review
Online education has long been a controversial issue within the Australian social work community. Although technological advances have improved the quality of teaching substantially, scepticism and disbelief continue to exist. Despite the growing evidence base as to the effectiveness of online teaching, this tends to be overlooked. A scoping review of the literature was conducted to synthesise research conducted on online social work education to identify its effectiveness, potential, and challenges and to show whether online social work education will effectively prepare qualified social workers. This revealed that online education enhanced diversity and equity among social work students and students’ performances and satisfaction were similar for both online and on-campus students. Nevertheless, communication and engagement continue to be a challenge.
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Australian social workVolume
74Issue
1Pagination
55 - 67Publisher
Taylor & FrancisLocation
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
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0312-407XeISSN
1447-0748Language
engPublication classification
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