Ideas to Inspire Student Engagement in Zoom
Read about helpful tips for Creating Dynamic Learning with Zoom in a short article from the current issue of Nurse Educator. The authors suggest approaches for creating a sense of belonging in virtual instruction, including ideas for classroom management; ice…
Linking to Library-Licensed Resources
The Health Sciences Library (HSL) offers a guide to help you find stable URLs for library-licensed electronic resources, including journal articles. If you have ever added a link in your Carmen course to a journal article only to hear from…
Quality Matters Certification for Online and Blended Courses
Are you wondering how your online or blended (hybrid) course measures up to current evidence-based standards for course design in higher education? OSU provides access to the Quality Matters rubric and its annotations through the Ohio Quality Matters Consortium. A CON…
Concept-Based Curriculum vs. Competency-Based Curriculum: What is the Difference?
Concept-Based Curriculum vs. Competency-Based Curriculum: What is the Difference? In response to criticism of traditional teaching methods in nursing, two approaches have emerged that have led to some confusion: one is based on competencies in nursing and the other is…
Clearing Up Confusion: Muddiest Points Teaching Strategy
In a recent presentation for CON faculty, Amy Mackos described a muddiest points teaching strategy she and her team of instructors use in a graduate-level pathophysiology course. The course is a large-enrollment, fully online course with weekly synchronous class meetings….
College of Nursing Instructional Redesign Cohort (Autumn 2020)
If you have completed the Drake Institute’s Teaching Practices Inventory and the Readings and Reflections Exercise (formerly Components 1 and 2 of the Drake’s Teaching Support Program), you are ready to complete Component 3, the Instructional Redesign Program. The College…
Current Landscape in Learning Technology Tools
The learning technology tool landscape never stays the same from one time I survey it to the next. New tools come, and old tools retire, fall out of favor, or disappear. Every now and then, it is worthwhile to perform…
2020 Scholarship Incentive Program
Congratulation to the autumn 2020 Scholarship Incentive Program recipients! The purpose of the Scholarship Incentive Program is to increase capacity for authorship and published scholarship related to academic nursing education among College of Nursing faculty. Novice writers were asked to…
Just Culture Assessment Tool – Nursing Education (JCAT-NE)
“A fair and just culture is one in which students learn and improve by openly identifying and assessing their weaknesses and feel supported in reporting errors” (QSEN Task Force, 2020). A new Just Culture Assessment Tool is available to measure…
Increase Student Engagement in Synchronous Zoom Lectures
Long lectures in Zoom may lead to student fatigue and disengagement with course content. Read the latest recommendations for making your synchronous (Zoom) classes more engaging. This short Faculty Focus blog article describes approaches related to camera/video use and creation…
