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BACKGROUND: Applying new methods of clinical education seems to provide nursing studentswith educational opportunities. The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of trainingthrough demonstration, video display, and virtual social space on the learning of clinical skills amongnursing students.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this semi‑experimental research with posttest that was performedin 2019, thirty nursing students of the seventh semester were randomly assigned to three groups ofdemonstration, video display, and the social virtual space education with ten people in each group.The research was conducted in the hemodialysis ward of university hospitals. Each group was trainedand evaluated during 10 days with 5‑h sessions continuously. Participants’ skills were evaluatedusing eight self‑made, valid and reliable checklists, and the three groups were compared. For dataanalysis such as the means and standard deviations and inferential statistics, Mann–Whitney test,Kruskal–Wallis likelihood‑ratio, and Chi‑squared test in SPSS version 16 were used.RESULTS: The results indicated that practical skill levels in the group of virtual social network weresignificantly higher than the two groups of video display (P = 0.045) and demonstration (P = 0.03).In addition, the group of virtual space had significantly higher scores than those of the other twogroups only in two skills of “prime” and “disconnecting the patients from the machine” (P < 0.05).CONCLUSION: Proper use of networks and social virtual space for clinical training, along withconventional methods of learning, provides good learning opportunities and is affordable in termsof time, cost, and process.