1. Nursing Informatics and Nursing Education
Chapter 20
Nursing Informatics and Nursing Education

2. Instructional Applications Of Computer Technology
A way to erase geographical boundaries for students
May enhance the presentation of content
May improve learning outcomes
Helps tailor instruction to individual learning needs.
Instructional Applications Of Computer Technology

3. Modern Instructional Technologies Provide
Opportunities for simulations
Complex multimedia
Virtual reality-assisted clinical scenarios
Information and literature-gathering Internet tools.
Modern Instructional Technologies Provide

4. Social Media in Education
Twitter® (twitter.com) can be used to focus and hone student perspectives
Flickr® (flickr.com) for photo sharing
Glogster® (glogster.com) a graphical blog
Pixton® (pixton.com) to make comics or cartoons
Prezi® (prezi.com) to create zooming presentations
Slideshare® (slideshare.net) a community for sharing presentations
YouTube (youtube.com) to watch and share videos
Wordle™ (wordle.net) to create word clouds from text
Social Media in Education

5. Interactivity in Web-enhanced courses
learner–learner
students interact to troubleshoot, work out challenges, and exchange solutions
learner–content
Students interact with course content
learner–instructor
direct interaction with instructor
learner–interface interactions
access to content
Interactivity in Web-enhanced courses

6. Software/Hardware Decisions
Consider usability, functionality, and accessibility
When evaluating software or hardware for purchase, careful assessment of the products and services will help an educator, administrator, or student to make the best choices.
Hardware decisions will depend upon the way a computer system will be used, in addition to cost, ease of use, and durability.
Software/Hardware Decisions

7. Nursing educators are discovering that current students are not responding in the same ways they did during their own tenure as students.
Technology-laden students from the millennial age demand instant information delivered in an entertaining fashion, an expectation built upon extensive exposure to , text messaging, online chatting, and the Internet.
Changing Students

8. Teaching Methods Compared
Although the most widely used teaching method among nurse educators, traditional face-to-face lecture yields only a 5% information retention rate over a 24-hour period, compared with
demonstration (30%)
discussion groups (50%)
practice activities (75%)
peer teaching (90%)
Teaching Methods Compared

9. Collaborative Learning Environments
The professor guides conversation and sets up discussion, acting less as classroom authority and more as facilitator, helping students maintain focus, gently guiding discussion, and ultimately empowering students to push knowledge boundaries in a safe and secure atmosphere of peer support.
interactive, cooperative learning strategies might include gaming, role playing, and problem-based learning
Collaborative Learning Environments

10. E-learning, online and web-based education have caused a significant shift in student-teacher relationships in nursing education.
online learning allows educators to translate theory into practice, creating a virtual classroom space that promotes collaboration, engagement, discussion, and analysis.
detractors of online learning initiatives suggest that sharing an online space undermines the student-teacher relationship, makes building peer relationships difficult, and generally disrupts the normal classroom dynamic, thus creating an unfamiliar, uncomfortable atmosphere.
Online Delivery

11. Asynchronous and time-independent elements of Web-based courses
provide flexible class times
meet needs of population of nontraditional learners.
Allows participation by anyone, anywhere in the world, with access
Re-envision classroom interaction, and depending on the specific delivery mode, can even change basic pedagogical concepts.
Web-Based Courses

12. Hybrid/Blended Delivery
Traditional courses are more frequently being offered as online, virtual classes, i.e., “distance education”: learning that occurs elsewhere than in the traditional classroom.
Web-enhanced instruction allows technically ambivalent institutions to participate in the technology revolution without huge budgetary expenditure and also addresses a preference by some faculty for a way to include innovation and technology in classes without giving up traditional classroom engagement
Hybrid/Blended Delivery

13. Smart Classrooms “Digital” and “multimedia” classrooms,
integrate computer and audio-visual technologies by providing a ceiling-mounted projector with an access point at the front of the room, an instructor podium/workstation, sound, and network access.
Enhanced smart classroom
also provide networked student workstations instead of traditional desks, allowing students to follow along online and perform network or Web searches, chat, blog, etc.
Smart Classrooms

14. Net Generation or Millennials
students who have grown up inside a wired world of instant access and online everything
connected, digital, experiential, and social
interacting in peer-to-peer situations is a familiar and common learning mode
desire information immediately
are skilled multitaskers
Net Generation or Millennials

15. Provide information to students and the skills to find, evaluate, understand, and apply this information
Attempt to mimic lectures by guiding users through a series of objectives or tasks, usually allowing the user to do the work at his or her own pace
May use animation, text, graphics, sound, questions, and different kinds of interactivity to engage and intrigue the user.
Online Tutorials

16. Combine high-fidelity equipment with real-time demonstrations of simulated medical emergencies or patient situations
Task and skill training ranks as the most popular form of simulation, during which students hone repetitive skills through interaction with a wide range of equipment
Simulations

17. Multiple sensory inputs, either mediated or generated by a computer, through visual stimulation, audio input, and touch
Fosters unintentional learning through gamer-like technology
students discover and create knowledge in order to accomplish something,
Their experiences result in greater comprehension and deeper knowledge
Virtual Reality

18. The general consensus in nursing education suggests that any technology that allows users to interact and engage both materials and each other is useful.
Webcasts, typically live presentations delivered via the Web, offer great potential for students and faculty to engage both information and each other globally, tapping students’ multiple intelligences in order for them to access what they need.
Internet Tools

19. One of the most common and proliferate search tools in technology today is the “wiki.”
Wikis are websites or hypertext document collections that allow users to edit and add content in an open-ended forum.
Instant messaging (IM), one of many collaborative Web “chat” tools available to any user with a computer and Internet access.
Internet Tools

20. Real-time chats occur all over the Internet, at each hour of every day.
In a chat, students can meet, discuss, and engage each other over any given topic.
One low-investment information-gathering tool for use by nursing professionals includes membership in a listserv.
Internet Tools

21. Electronic discussion groups that use to communicate, listservs promote communication and collaboration with others interested in a particular field of study.
Similar to listservs in the way they deliver specific information to one’s , a portal allows the personalization of a specific website.
Portals organize information from Web pages into simple menus so that the user may choose what they want to view and how they want to view it.
Internet Tools

22. As technologically-savvy students continue to demand accessible, interactive learning tools to keep them engaged, an increasing number of instructors are experimenting with and incorporating multimedia into their courses.
Research suggests that the seeing, hearing, doing and interacting afforded by multimedia facilitates learning retention, with multimedia at least as effective as traditional instruction, but with the benefit of greater learner satisfaction.
INTERNET TOOLS

23. Podcasts are audio recordings linked to the Web that are then downloaded to an MP3 player or computer where the listener accesses the recording or video.
“Audiopods” is a term used to describe traditional, or audio- based, podcasts. Participating in podcasting can exercise not just basic technology skills, but also writing, editing, and speaking skills as well.
Podcasts

24. Similar to audiopods in set-up and accessibility, videopods are podcasts that provide video in addition to audio functionality.
Faculty might use videopodcasts to demonstrate concepts, interview experts in the field, and even assess student progress.
Videopods

25. Webinars, are web-based seminars that use web conferencing software that allows an educator to share their computer screen and files and interact with their students.
Webcasts present to the audience with limited or no interactivity.
Webinars and WebCasts

26. While traditional in-class discussion seems almost outdated in light of the stunning advances in technology that allow learners to participate in every kind of activity from computer-guided online quizzes to interactive simulations, the educator as facilitator still holds value and importance in a traditional or even blended classroom.
Discussions