Integrating Technology in a Connected Online Course

Integrating Technology in a Connected Online Course

Discussion

Purpose

The purpose of this discussion is for you to examine the measures needed to create a connected classroom where students feel they matter, their contributions are valued, and they take responsibility for their learning.

Instructions

For this discussion, review this week’s lesson and readings. Then, address the following:

• As you prepare to teach an online course and establish an online connected community, describe at least four teaching strategies and how you would integrate these teaching strategies into the learning space so that students feel they matter, their contributions are valued, and they take responsibility for their own learning.

• Program Competencies

  This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:

  1. Integrates scientific underpinnings into everyday clinical practice. (POs 3, 5)
  2. Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic changes in corporate culture and to promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)
  3. Uses analytic methods to translate critically appraised research and other evidence into clinical scholarship for innovative practice improvements. (POs 3, 5)
  4. Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)
  5. Analyzes health care policies to advocate for equitable health care and social justice to all populations and those at risk due to social determinants of health. (POs 2, 9)
  6. Creates a supportive organizational culture for flourishing collaborative teams to facilitate clinical disease prevention and promote population health at all system levels. (PO 8)
  7. Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
  8. Leads others in professional identity, advanced clinical judgment, systems thinking, resilience, and accountability in selecting, implementing, and evaluating clinical care. (POs 1, 4)
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  Course Outcomes

  This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

  1. Analyze educational theories and their influence on teaching and learning strategies in nursing. (PCs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; POs 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
  2. Design nursing curricula using a synthesis of educational theory, using best evidence from the literature and current and prevailing healthcare trends, accreditation, and regulatory standards. (PCs 1, 3, 5, 7, 8; POs 1, 2, 3, 5)
  3. Design teaching and learning strategies using a synthesis of educational theory, best evidence from the literature, and prevailing trends in clinical and academic learning environments to facilitate learner development and socialization. (PCs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8; POs 1, 3, 4, 6, 8)
  5. Critique the role of the nurse educator as a change agent, nurse leader, and facilitator of learning. (PCs 2, 4, 5, 6, 8; POs 2, 4, 6, 8)
• APA 7th edition