In reading posts I keep going back to how these educational strategies could be used in nursing education. Then while working on my nursing ed. project I ran across these two articles. Ohio State University College of Nursing has constructed a virtual community called Mirror Lake. This community contains Mirror Lake Medical Center a virtual hospital.The hospital contains a fully automated electronic medical record and other technologies to enhance the student's abiltiy to learn in new and contemporary ways (Curran et al, 2009). Also featured in the Journal of Nursing Education February 09 issue was an article about using constructivist strategies in nursing education. These articles brought full circle this weeks discussion. We have all been able to verbalize the stratagies for 3-D learning and the constructivist theory based in de Jong's article, to visualize them in practice in our individual areas of expertise was a piece of the puzzle I had yet to grasp. As we have a good number of nursing ed. majors in this class I wanted to point out these articles.
Building a Virtual Community for Nursing Education: The Town of Mirror Lake. Journal of Nursing Education, January 2009
Constructivist Strategies in Online Distance Education in Nursing. Journal of Nursing Education, February 2009
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In reading posts I keep going back to how these educational strategies could be used in nursing education. Then while working on my nursing ed. project I ran across these two articles. Ohio State University College of Nursing has constructed a virtual community called Mirror Lake. This community contains Mirror Lake Medical Center a virtual hospital.The hospital contains a fully automated electronic medical record and other technologies to enhance the student's abiltiy to learn in new and contemporary ways (Curran et al, 2009). Also featured in the Journal of Nursing Education February 09 issue was an article about using constructivist strategies in nursing education. These articles brought full circle this weeks discussion. We have all been able to verbalize the stratagies for 3-D learning and the constructivist theory based in de Jong's article, to visualize them in practice in our individual areas of expertise was a piece of the puzzle I had yet to grasp. As we have a good number of nursing ed. majors in this class I wanted to point out these articles.
Building a Virtual Community for Nursing Education: The Town of Mirror Lake. Journal of Nursing Education, January 2009
Constructivist Strategies in Online Distance Education in Nursing. Journal of Nursing Education, February 2009