Nursing Education

In April, Dr. Lana Sargent and other educators from Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing presented a de-prescribing workshop at the Virginia Geriatric Society Conference as part of a $10,000 grant award from the Geriatric Training and Education Initiative (GTE). Dr. Sargent approached SON IT with a rough sketch of an animation that she hoped to incorporate […]

I was looking for resources for a statistics class and came across this site: teaching with JMP. It is an amazing treasure trove of resources for using JMP for statistics.  It includes: case studies, webinars, videos, interactive learning tools and much more!  If you have students using JMP in your class for statistics, you will […]

At the most recent strategic planning meeting someone mentioned the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity.  VCU subscribes to this resource. Here is the blog entry where I describe how you can sign up to access it: https://blogs.vcu.edu/nursingeducation/2017/08/30/national-center-for-faculty-development-diversity-university-faculty-resource/  

When searching for material, I came across the Nursing Commons, a digital repository of scholarly work from doctoral students and faculty that has been curated by university librarians. The Nursing Commons is a part of the Digital Commons Network.  According to their website: The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds […]

The current issue of the online classroom newsletter is available here: https://www.magnapubs.com/newsletter/online-classroom/ If you haven’t done so, please make sure to sign up for a subscription.  The VCU authorization code and instructions for signing up is available in the IT space.

Here is a great resource by Carlow University that shows how to design and deliver an online course.  It was created for the Center for Digital Learning & Innovation at Carlow University.

  I did NOT copy and paste from Word to Blackboard. Why?  Word has “behind the scenes” code that gets pasted into Blackboard. After pasting, the formatting might look fine to you, but it can alter the display of questions and even prevent students from completing a test. If your text is in Word, you […]

The end of the semester is an opportunity to look back on your course and reflect on what went well and what you might want to modify before you teach it again.  When doing so, consider how the activities you are asking students to complete meet your learning objectives and how you are assessing mastery of course content.  […]

Kaltura includes an easy to use wizard for creating an unlimited number of questions that you can embed at chosen points in your lecture. The multiple choice format allows for 2, 3, or 4 answers and flexible settings give you the ability to choose if learners can skip questions, revise answers, get hints and/or discover […]

If you or your students attempt to view an Echo recording and receive an error message that the correct version of the Adobe Flash player is not installed, it is NOT necessary to upgrade the player. There is actually a simple fix that involves enabling Flash in the browser as shown below: Use the Chrome browser […]