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Freestyle presentations in nursing education.

In a learner-based curriculum, faculty encourages students to exercise independent learning, with the teacher being a modest mentor. Independent learning is defined as being able to engage in self-study and having the opportunity to design the most suitable pace of study for oneself without the assistance and involvement of teachers or other students. This learning approach emphasizes the transactional and contextual process of learning and logical thinking, which is especially important in nursing education. Montgomery described an independent approach for students by allowing them to select their clinical assignments. Also wanting to engage students in active learning through innovative approaches, I challenged my students with a 5-minute freestyle presentation (FP). The objectives are to enhance students’ creativity, team spirit, independent learning, and active learning. Students are encouraged to construct knowledge in their own way to foster long-term memory retention of nursing concepts and practices. The FP allows students to design their own format for making class presentations, with the only requirements being that it cannot exceed 5 minutes and must relate to a given scenario. The FP strategy can be implemented in any traditional or problem-based learning (PBL) class, especially during the latter half of the semester when students were more familiar with the nursing knowledge. To best fit an FP into class content, the lecturer can provide students with a particular scenario related to PBL or content from some other broad-based courses. Students are asked to form groups of 4 to 5 students and, with the scenario as a starting point, spend 30 to 60 minutes in class analyzing the major concepts, supporting evidence,suitable treatments,patient’scondition, family’sburden, and pertinent ideas. Then, in preparation for presenting their assessment to the larger class a week later, they are asked to think innovatively and create a new format, other than a PowerPoint presentation or conventional speech, that will engage their classmates’ interest. Some possible formats are sing-a-song, presenting a poem, creating a role play, or even imitating a TV game show or an advertisement.