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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)
- Melanie Rathburn; Roberta Lexier; Andrew Vespa
- Date issued
- 2016
- Description
- Community-service learning (CSL), which is grounded in John Dewey’s theory of learning through experience (1938), allows students the opportunity to participate in a service experience that is integrated within the curriculum, meets the actual needs of the community, and incorporates critical reflection to connect their academic learning with their experiences. There is now overwhelming evidence that CSL has the ability to influence students’ cognitive and affective learning (Levesque-Bristol, Knapp, and Fisher, 2010; Eyler and Giles, 1999; Warren, 2012). In 2014, we offered two collaborative courses that included an international travel component and shared the same cohort of students....
- Type
- presentations (communicative events)
- Appears in collection(s)
- Centres & Institutes
- 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