Health Screening Fair Project

CON GFO Presentation – March 12, 2012

Presentation by Suhasini Kotcherlakota & Jami Monico

Overview

To Build and Evaluate a Virtual Learning

Environment

1. Dean’s Education Grant

Meeting QSEN Competency goals

2. Informatics

3. Patient-Centered Care

4. Teamwork and Collaboration

5. Safety

Project Proposal Goals

  

Proposed virtual learning environment

The Neighborhood (Jean Giddens, 2010)

Learning Outcomes QSEN Competencies Unknown

Multimedia (technology) Student ActivitiesInteractivity using Flash, videos, simulated environment, quizzes

Text, videos, PDF, PPT

Setting Rural and urban Urban only

Concept-based curriculum Yes Implementation is unclear

Format Timeline of events Episodes

Customization ( flexibility to make changes – add modify, delete content /activities)

YesDoes not allow for changes or modification to align with UNMC curriculum

Faculty involvement in creation of content Yes No

Aims

To build a virtual learning environment (VLE)

platform environment and pilot the study :

1. To initially integrate VLE into semester 1 and 2

courses;

2. Design and build the virtual multimedia segments

for the course activities;

3. Collect and analyze faculty and student interaction

data and use of VLE in the courses;

4. Identify the advantages and limitations of the VLE.

Website

http://unmcvl.atticdev.ist.unomaha.edu/login.php

Initial Project Pilot

• NRSG314O: Patient Centered Care Clinical I

• Fall 2011

• # of students who participated: 70

Piloting the project

“We’d better be ready for finals” …“This website is teaching me for the finals”

“I have already learned some of the material...I guess I am not a detailed person”  

“I have to pay attention to the things”

“Good review” … “Graphically pleasing” … “Colors are nice”

“May be develop one for nclex questions”

“Activities were fun” … “I liked that”

“The design was nice ..like it was done by someone who knew what they were doing”

“Build similar booths : Glucose, Ulcers - showing different type of ulcers, cholesterol,

Therapeutic communication”

Future Plans

• Plan to perform research in Summer 2012

• Possibilities for more funding to further

develop the platform

• CON course integration: Addition of

modules for Semester 1- 4 courses

Contact us for testing the site

NEST Project Update and Information

CON GFO Presentation – March 12, 2012

Presentation by Suhasini Kotcherlakota

Nursing Exemplar Strategies for Teaching

NEST

A Learning repository website to collect and

share exemplar nursing teaching strategies

utilized by faculty at College of Nursing

Four functions of Boyer’s model of Scholarship

• where new and unique knowledge is generatedDiscovery

• where the teacher creatively builds bridges between his or her own understanding and the student’s learning

Teaching

• where the emphasis is on the use of new knowledge involving society’s problemApplication

• where new relationships among the disciplines are discovered.Integration

Cross campus collaboration

Scholarship

Faculty role development

Leadership

NEST Website in Development

http://dev.unmc.edu/nursing/nest/main.html