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Table 3 Challenges or factors that have been confining health practitioners from utilising mHealth and e-Learning platforms

From: mHealth and e-Learning in health sciences curricula: a South African study of health sciences staff perspectives on utilisation, constraints and future possibilities

 

Challenges or Factors Confining Health Practitioners from utilising mHealth and e-Learning Platforms

Code themes = 55

FGD UJ Staff - 23092021

Online distractions, No student engagement, Loadshedding, Wi-Fi network, Generational Gap.

Transcripts of FGD at UWC 04102021

Internet access, No student engagement, Insufficient data.

UCT staff 07102021

Lack of technical skills, digital divide, connectivity issues, lesser resourced settings, inequality, inadequate educational training, insufficient data for students, lack of Wi-Fi stability of infrastructure, lack of skills or education.

UJ Staff 26082021

Insufficient preparation from both tutors and students, poor backgrounds, lack of accessibility to data,

Adoption and regulation.

Wits FGD Staff - 27102021

Online distractions, no student engagement, loadshedding, Wi-Fi network, Generational Gap.

UCT Staff Interview 13102021

No digital training, connectivity issues and systemic, digital divide, load-shedding.