Application: Online Course Design
Online education offers convenient and effective means by which nurses, nursing students, and other populations can gain valuable learning experiences. In this Application, you will design an online learning environment on a nursing-education topic of interest to you. If you would like to put your course online, you are invited to try Moodle, a free course management web application, but this is not a requirement of the assignment.
To begin, review Chapter 6, “Designing the Online Learning Environment,” in Developing Online Learning Environments in Nursing Education (O’Neil, Fisher, & Newbold, 2009). Next, identify a learning topic and audience for which you would like to design an online learning module. Perhaps you wish to develop a module training for staff in your workplace on hand-washing techniques, or a module on ABG’s for student nurses, or a smoking cessation program for cardiac patients. The module you develop can be conceived of as a one-module course (i.e., the entire course) or as part of a multilesson online or hybrid course. Include at least two learning objectives as well as a proposed evaluation strategy to determine if objectives have been met. Using a constructivist design, design your learning module using the principles of good online course design you have been learning about in this course, including the value of active learning and student-centeredness.
The summary of this module will be presented using PowerPoint. This PowerPoint presentation provides an opportunity for you to design an online course, making creative and appropriate use of technology. It is not expected that individual elements of the course are completely developed. In other words, it is fine to describe (if you cannot actually provide) multimedia or other applications you would use in your module??”for instance, describing a video of handwashing. Be sure to provide as much information as needed to indicate how you intend to meet your learning objectives with these elements.
In 10??”15 slides, describe your course design, addressing the items noted below. Include speaker notes to expand meaningfully on the bulleted slide contents. Citations must be included in the speaker notes and all references must be given on the last slide.
Target population
Purpose and two learning objectives (state which domain these represent??”i.e., cognitive, affective, psychomotor)
Course organization
Content (summarize)
Structure
Activities
Multimedia
Navigation
Page layout
Interaction
Synchronous or asynchronous interaction
Two discussion questions (addressing the two learning objectives)
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