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- Contributor(s)
- Vince Salyers; Lorraine Carter; Penelope Barrett; Lynda Williams
- Date issued
- 2010
- Description
- Most schools of nursing utilize technology to deliver courses, and entire curricula, through a combination of face to face (f2f), web-enhanced, and fully online strategies. Challenges associated with course delivery may include geographic and technological barriers, lack of instructional design support, inconsistent, inadequate or unreliable support infrastructure, and varying degrees of faculty and student experiences with learning management systems.
- Type
- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Katrin Becker; Elisa Gopin
- Date issued
- 2016
- Description
- Digital games are being used more and more often as teaching resources in the classroom (Habgood & Ainsworth, 2011). Some are games designed specifically for educational purposes, and others—commonly known as COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) games—are commercial games that were designed for entertainment, but have educational value as well. Some of these, like The Sims, Civilization, and Portal, have come to be seen as educational games despite having commercial success outside of education. COTS games may be free to download or play, or games that must be purchased. They can be for any platform, including mobile. While there appears to be a gradually growing acceptance of the use of games...
- Type
- book chapter
- Appears in collection(s)
- Science and Technology