If you’ve worked long and hard on a manuscript and you submit it to a journal that isn’t a good fit for your work, you are bound to have a discouraging and time-consuming experience. (Ask your TIES Academy directors how…
Maintaining student-to-student interaction in our classrooms is more important than ever, now that we’ve moved our instruction to the virtual environment. The literature supports peer review among students in nursing education classrooms as a sound instructional strategy that results in…
In response to a quick move to virtual instruction, College of Nursing faculty member Christa Newtz revised her in-class group assignment in her Therapeutic Communications course to assess student skills in “plain language” communication about health topics. She asked students…
If you’ve moved your exams online and are concerned about exam integrity, now might be a good time to consider a different approach. One study shows that student-written exams: Are as challenging or more challenging than traditional exams Engage adult…
Are you ready to learn more about virtual teaching strategies that keep your students engaged and support their academic success? OSU’s Office of Distance Education and eLearning has compiled an easy-to-read list of evidence-based teaching strategies that support student success…
The literature describes some wonderful examples of how allowing students to express themselves creatively through media such as art, dance, or poetry in the classroom enhances learning outcomes, and we have some innovative examples of assignments that require creative expression…
Two nurse faculty recently published a “writing checklist” that they used in a DNP writing course to provide guidance around basic requirements for scholarly writing. Topics covered include Content, Paragraphs, Sentences, and Words, and example checklist items include “Can you…
Do study guides enhance learning and increase student performance? A recent study says, “It depends.” Faculty sometimes create study outlines with the good intention of relieving students of the burden of identifying the concepts they need to focus on while…
In November, the National League for Nursing (NLN) published an updated version of their Hallmarks of Excellence, a list of 30 characteristics of excellent nursing programs. Are you looking for ideas to engage students in active learning in your classroom?…
We have many excellent examples of teaching innovation in the College of Nursing, but we don’t always take time to share our teaching strategies with each other and the broader academic community. At the January TIES Writing Gathering, we conducted…
