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 CPHEO@umn.edu 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.