The Great American Meditation Experiment

The activity was designed to maintain the engagement that is an essential element of online learning pedagogy (Soffer & Cohen, 2019) and to introduce meditation as a strategy to support mental health and maximize academic outcomes amidst the stressors of a pandemic (Lee & Jang, 2021). Aggregate data were analyzed with descriptive statistics including mean, median, variance, and standard deviation of heart rate before and after the activity. The GAME was a straightforward adaptation of the original teaching technique that was congruent with online pedagogy and also was both feasible and relevant in a post-COVID-19 world. [...]it introduced a self-care tool that may benefit nursing students both now and in the future.