Nursing Education

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 […]

We have had a number of previous posts about Kaltura including: Upload video to Kaltura Add interactive quizzing to Kaltura lectures Allow your students to download Kaltura videos Using Kaltura to create a presentation Today, we have a new post and video: Making a Kaltura Video Presentation and Posting it to Blackboard  If you intend […]

IT recently fielded a question from a student who was unable to view a discussion that had been visible a few days prior.  Upon investigation, we discovered the discussion had an availability end date that was set to coincide with the due date.  This is fine if students no longer need access to the discussion, […]

If you have School of Nursing IT schedule your lectures to be captured, you can easily add those videos to your Blackboard course.  You have the option of adding one video or to linking to the whole course page which will show all of the videos that have been scheduled for the semester. This word […]

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.  […]