So today, I thought I would share teaching practices from
another educator. I also welcome hearing from others about what they are using
to teach students. The more we share the better we become!
”When
I was the Dean of Science, Engineering, Health Science, and Human Performance
at Ocean County College I learned about the wonders of using Hands-On Labs’
LabPaqs
to allow us to teach laboratory-based science courses totally online using “wet
labs” that could be shipped almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, SoftChalk LLC,
allowed us to produce online courses far beyond anything we had produced before
by adding interactivity to nearly every page of content. This changed our
boring “death by outline and PowerPoint” approach into one in which we provided
highly interactive content pages that were a work of art filled with learning
exercises and games. We needed to produce both nursing courses and science
courses to fulfill a $458,000 grant from the venerable Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
which allowed us to produce a One Day per Week Nursing Program (now called the
One Site/One Line Nursing Program). This program allowed students to attend
clinical training one day per week while the didactic portion was delivered
online. This opened up nursing to a whole new group of students who were
limited by time, family commitments, work, or distance. It was an instant
success and students from a much wider geographical area began coming to OCC to
get their associate degree RN. This online education model addressed the
hospital RN shortage crisis and has become a national model”.
I hope you will comment and
join in the conversation.
Dr Flavius A B Akerele III
The ETeam
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