Collaborative Learning Processes in Oncological Further Education: How to Improve Communication Skills Due to the Use of CARO Interaction System

Digital media are only used to a limited extent in nursing training. Although institutions use learning management systems like Moodle, there is no systematic integration of digitally supported teaching/learning environments into the classroom (Kamin 2013). However, computer-assisted teaching and learning can offer great added value for today's complex contents and challenges of oncological further education. CARO is a digital, interactive and multimedia teaching/learning environment and was developed in the already completed project CARO - Care reflection online. In the currently ongoing project CAROplusONKO, the software is being refined to meet the needs of specialist oncological training. A group tool is actually being developed to support group work and collaborative learning processes in class and beyond the presence phase. The concept of the group tool was tested and discussed in a group discussion with experts from oncological further education. The results of the group discussion are presented and discussed in this paper.