Nurse Educator Consortium

SREB project helps colleges and universities expand nursing faculty through e-learning.

To help alleviate unprecedented demand for nursing faculty, the Council launched a special initiative during the 2004-2005 academic year to increase the number of nurse educators through online learning. In collaboration with the Council and SREB's Electronic Campus, the Nurse Educator Consortium enables participating graduate nursing programs to add needed courses and reach more students through computer links between institutions.

Twelve graduate students completed three of the courses essential for faculty roles in the pilot phase. Now, the Council's board and the six original participating institutions recommend expanding this important regional effort to share even more resources across institutional and state boundaries.

The Nurse Educator Consortium invites your institution to participate by either receiving or delivering Web-based courses.

The Nurse Educator Consortium (NEC) includes:

	Alcorn State University (Natchez, Mississippi)
		Nursing 531: Nursing Education Roles and Models Course starts May 27, 2009
	Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina)
		NURS 827: Foundations of Nursing Education Course starts January 7, 2009
	Delta State University (Cleveland, Mississippi)
		NUR 617: Curriculum Design and Evaluation Course starts in January 2010; date TBA
	Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (New Orleans)
		Nursing 7370: Graduate Nursing Education Course starts January 16, 2009
	University of Alabama at Birmingham
		NTC 654: Evaluation and Instruction in Nursing Course starts May 11, 2009
	University of North Carolina Wilmington (Wilmington, North Carolina)
		NURS 524: Nursing Education Curriculum Design and Instruction Course starts August 2009; date TBA NSG 525: Nursing Education Evaluation Course starts August 2009; date TBA NSG 513: Teaching Nursing: New Pedagogies for Teaching and Learning Course starts January 7, 2009
	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (Oklahoma City)
		NURS 5214 Curriculum, Assessment and Evaluation in Nursing Education Course starts January 20, 2009 NURS 5253: Facilitating Learning in Nursing Course starts January 20, 2009
	University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
		NURS 5371: Curriculum and Instruction Course starts January 12, 2009 NURS 5372: Roles of the Teacher in Nursing Course starts January 12, 2009

Click on the links above for a summary of the courses.

For more information about participating, call Eula Aiken at (404) 879-5567 or e-mail eula.aiken@sreb.org.