technology-enhanced learning in the university of minnesota academic health center
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Technology-Enhanced Learning in the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center. Janet Shanedling, PhD Director, Educational Development AHC Office of Education Minnesota Rural Health Conference July 2006. University of Minnesota School of Nursing. T echnology E nhanced - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Technology-Enhanced Learning in the
University of Minnesota Academic Health Center
Janet Shanedling, PhDDirector, Educational Development
AHC Office of Education
Minnesota Rural Health ConferenceJuly 2006
Technology Enhanced LearningIn Graduate Nursing
University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Increasing Access
• HRSA funding (over $2.5 million) received in 2000 and 2004
• 5 graduate specialties available online:– Nurse-midwifery– Women’s health nurse practitioner– Public health nursing– Nursing and health care systems
administration– Psychiatric-mental health CNS
How it works
• Two-day orientation on campus
• Two seminars on campus each semester (some include one long seminar; clinical courses may have three or four seminars)
• All core courses available online
• Interactive learning activities
• Full and part time options available
Examples of interactive, online learning activities
• Audio welcome• Audio over PowerPoint• Self tests• Discussion
cases/questions• Type, click, and tell• Flash animation• Games• Self assessment
For more information…
• www.nursing.umn.edu– Click: Online Learning– Sample Module– Video
• http://www.nursing.umn.edu/OnlineLearning/home.html
MERET is a program designed to educate and train Minnesota's healthcare workers in emergency preparedness.
School of Public Health
Modules currently in development (available later this summer)
• Standard Precautions and Respiratory Hygiene
• Transmission-Based Precautions
• Multiple Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs)
• Protect Yourself First with Full Barrier Precaution
• Design and Maintenance of Airborne Infection Isolation Rooms (AIIR)
• Methods for Achieving Temporary Negative Pressure Isolation (TNPI)
• Respiratory Protection
• Risk Communication
• Hospital Decontamination Teams
• H5N1 Avian Influenza
For more information…
• Modules will be available at the MERET Web site in September 2006, at: http://www.meret.umn.edu
• Modules will be free of charge.
• They will be offered in a Flash format, online.
Public Health Emergency Training
For more information…
• Modules are available at http://www.sph.umn.edu/umncphp
• Modules are free of charge.
• Contact: 612 626-4515 or [email protected] for questions.
Introduction to Public Health Practice
For more information…
• Modules are available at http://www.publichealthplanet.org
• Click on Registration.
• Modules are free of charge.
U of M Academic Health Center Office of Education
Information on distribution will be announced in October 2006 following the pilot test and
finalization of modules.