Nursing Education Center

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Course Overview
This is an online course on curricula, student and program assessment. It includes a discussion of curriculum and evaluation models in both academic nursing education and professional nursing staff development.

Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to

1. analyze societal and health care trends that impact the nursing curricula;
2. apply principles of curriculum design to nursing education curricula and professional development curricula;
3. analyze strategies for assessing the learning environment for nursing education and professional staff development curricula;
4. apply strategies for assessing and evaluating the learner in nurse education programs and professional staff development;
5. identify strategies for dealing with diversity in nursing education and staff development programs;
6. incorporate standards of professional performance into nursing educational program planning;
7. analyze fiscal factors associated with planning and delivering nursing education and staff development programs; and
8. apply evaluation criteria to nursing education and staff development courses and programs.

Content Outline

1. Curriculum Development/Design
2. Assessment
3. Evaluation
4. Quality Improvement/Program Management
5. Informatics

Required Text

Billings, D & Halstead, J. (2005). Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty. (2nd Edition) St. Louis: Elservier.

Keating, S.B. (2006). Curriculum Development and Evaluation in Nursing. Philadelphia: Lippincott/Williams & Wilkins.

National League for Nursing (2005). The Scope of Practice for Academic Nurse Educators. New York: Author.

Finkelman, A. & Kenner C.A. (2007). Teaching ION: Implication of the Institute of Medicine Reports for Nursing Education. Silver Springs, MD: American Nurses Association.

Description
This is an online course with a teaching practicum focusing on teaching and learning strategies in nursing education. Classroom, technology-based and clinical teaching strategies are included. The course practicum objectives are tailored to the students' career path in either academic nursing education or professional nursing staff development.

Objectives

1. At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
2. Apply learning theories to the planning an dimplementing of learning activities in nursing education and professional staff development programs
3. Apply knowledge of learning styles to the planning and implementation of teaching/learning activities in nursing education and professional staff development programs
4. Practice selected instructional strategies in:

1. The nursing classroom
2. In online nursing education offerings
3. The clinical nursing education practicum

Content Outline

• Module 1  Introduction to Facilitating Learning in Nursing
• Module 2  Learning Theories
• Module 3  Learning Styles
• Module 4  Instructional Strategies
• Module 5  Clinical Instruction and Supervision
• Module 6  Technology in Nursing Education Web-based (Asynchronous)
• Module 7  Technology in Nursing Education (Synchronous)
• Module 8  Presentation/Practicum

Teaching and Learning Methods
Teaching learning activities include an online journal to document practicum experiences, online discussion in each module, online demonstration of selected microteaching strategies, and online quizzes. PLEASE NOTE: This course requires a teaching practicum. Teaching practicum objectives will be negotiated between the student and the professor.

Required Text

Billings, D. M., & Halstead, J. A. (2005). Teaching in nursing: A guide for faculty. 2d ed. St. Louis: Elsevier Saunders

Other assigned readings will be on electronic reserve and online.

Technical Requirements
Specific requirements (minimum and recommended) appear at http://nursing.ouhsc.edu/Current_Students/index.cfm#computer

• Access to the Internet and Microsoft Office  (Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint), Acrobat Reader, Antivirus Software (updated weekly).
• Most current version of Internet Explorer
• Media software:  Windows Media Player; Flash
• PC Microphone