Educational Informatics: e-Learning

Author Supplement to Chapter 22

Websites That Expand on Chapter 22's Knowledge

Digital Immigrant or Digital Native
Instructional Design
Learning Management Systems
Power Point as Lecture Support or Replacement (Chapter 7)
Make Your Own Videos (Free ware)
Online Learning
- Is Online Learning for You?
Patient Education
Simulations
Second Life
Some Free Educational Programs
Virtual Reality

Digital Immigrant or Digital Native

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants -- A New Way To Look At Ourselves and Our Kids (and students!)
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants: Part II Do They Really Think Differently?
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part2.pdf

Instructional Design

Instructional Design. Links to information about many different theories of instructional design.
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/development.html

Analyzing learner and instructional needs when preparing for online learning. Links at the bottom or each page lead to the next step in Instructional Design for Online Learning. Very helpful.
http://woodcock/online design/testificandum

Instructional Design from Wikipedia. Some good solid information.
http://anticipatory/whacky/Instructorships

Shire, Wayne. The Basic Phases of the Instructional Systems Design Process
http://welcome/list_6300475_basic-instructional-systems-design-process.html

A good description of the first two steps in instructional design, analysis and design and development. Also, a good description of objectives.
http://wardrooms/info-design/instruct/bisectional

Web Quests. A Web Quest is a model for designing effective Web-based instructional activities. They focus on analyzing, synthesizing, and problem solving rather than finding Web resources. They can be designed for individual or group activities.
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

This software may also be labeled Course Management System,Managed Learning Environment, Online Learning Environment, Virtual Learning Environment, or Web-based Learning Environment

Siemens, George (2004, November 22). Learning Management Systems:The wrong place to start learning. An excellent discussion of some of the drawbacks of LMSs and some thoughts about remediating these. Suggest starting here. An LMS should not dictate how students are suppose (pretend) to learn.
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/lms.htm

Learning or Management Systems? (2006). A timeless, thought provoking article. When a system drives the learning modes - watch out!
http://www.connectivism.ca/?p=243

Alvarado, Pat. (2004). Seven Steps to Selecting a Learning Management System. Read before you select an LMS!
http://www.elearning-engineering.com/lms/

Free Course Management System. Moodle is an open source, free software package designed to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.
http://moodle.org/

Learning Management System Software Directory. Lists some examples of software with a brief discussion of each as well as links for more information and reviews. Interestingly, it does not include the most popular ones.
http://www.capterra.com/learning-management-system-software

Make Your Own Videos (Free ware)

As far as I can tell, these are free. If you find out otherwise, please use the email address at either the bottom of this page, or the top under "About" to inform Linda. What starts out as free, sometimes morphs...!

BB Flashback Express.
http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/bbflashbackexpress/home.aspx

CAM Studio Open Source. Free Streaming Video Software. There is a proprietary product available also - keep this in mind.
http://camstudio.org/

Debut Video Capture Software. Record video from webcam, capture devices or screen. This may only be a trial copy.
http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html

Free Video Editing Software. Use as an adjunct if you have a Webcam.
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/01/free-video-editing-software-for.html

Windows Live Essentials: Movie Maker. If you have downloaded the free Live Essentials (only necessary with Windows 7 - Vista had it built in), you will have a built in basic editing tool for slides or imported movies.
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-movie-maker-get-started?os=other

Online Learning

Boettcher, J. V. (2003). How Many Students Are Just Right in a Web Course? Besides the topic of the title this article also looks at faculty workload with distance education.
http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/number.htm

Distance Education at a Glance from the University of Idaho. Excellent resource, 13 chapters online about distance education including an overview, information about instructional design and a glossary. Is a little dated, but the basics are solid. Tip #8 Strategies for Learning at a Distance.
http://www.uidaho.edu/eo/distglan.html

Is Online Learning for You?

Is Online Learning for You? List of traits that make it more likely that online learning will succeed for a student. Links to two self-assessment modules at the end.
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/elearning-essentials/learning-online.htm

Is Online Learning for You? From the University of Illinois Again, links to self-assessment tools besides solid information.
http://www.online.uillinois.edu/students/well_suited.asp

Patient Education

Medline Interactive Health Tutorials from the Patient Education Institute. Designed for patients, these tutorials explain a condition in lay terminology, use Flash graphics and provide audio accompaniment. An excellent resource.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html

Patient Education Handouts - Quality Diabetes Care and Education. Free pdf files to download.
http://www.dce.org/publications/education-handouts/

Patient Teaching Handouts. "Patient handouts/teaching sheets are used by Children's Hospital and Health System or Wisconsin staff to teach parents and children about health topics, conditions or procedures. They are written by staff and are updated regularly. They include the most important information for families to know when caring for their child."
http://www.chw.org/display/PPF/DocID/32977/router.asp

Patient Teaching Materials from the University or Pittsburgh Medical Center. "Patients and others who visit UPMC facilities can learn about health-related topics by reading printed information prepared by UPMC. This page gives you online access to the same patient education materials that those who visit UPMC receive."
http://www.upmc.com/healthAtoZ/patienteducation/Pages/patiented.aspx

Simulations

Simulation. Description of many different types.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation

Some Free Educational Programs (there are many others if you search)

Anatomy

Anatomy. This page has links to many great sources to assist learning, or even reviewing, anatomy.
http://nursejournal.org/community/anatomy-resource-guide-for-nursing-students/

Auscultation Sounds

Auscultation Assistant. This site offers recordings of heart sounds and a description of what is causing them. Excellent site.
http://www.wilkes.med.ucla.edu/intro.html

McGill University Virtual Stethoscope. Provides sound files for both respiratory and cardiovascular sounds.
http://sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca/mvs/mvsteth.htm

Cardiology

ACLS Online Library. Excellent information about the heart.
http://www.aclsrecertificationonline.com/acls-online-library-anatomy-of-the-heart.html

http://www.aclscertification.com/pages/acls-online-resources-anatomy-of-the-heart.html

Atlas of Human Cardiology. This site from the University of Minnesota features illustrations of the various parts of the heart plus movies of the various parts as they function.
http://www.vhlab.umn.edu/atlas/atlas.html

Cases and Examples of ECGs. To gain full advantage you need to register - which is free. Would be very helpful to anyone teaching ECGs.
http://en.ecgpedia.org/wiki/Cases_and_Examples

ECG Library. A collection of ECGs organized by the cardiac condition they represent.
http://www.ecglibrary.com/ecghome.html

Normal and Abnormal EKGs. Shows EKGs for different conditions and a normal one. Accompanying heart sounds too.
http://www.bioscience.org/atlases/heart/

Physical Exams and History Taking

Chandrasekhar, A. J. Screening Physical Exam. From Loyola University Medical Education Network. For physical exams, the list of steps, how to perform the step, what is normal, what is abnormal and the knowledge required to perform the test is provided. A self evaluation module is created for each step to ensure that you have comprehended the information. http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/MEDICINE/PULMONAR/pdself/menu_f.htm

Medical History Taking Study Guide
Although physician oriented, provides good basic material on how to take a patients history.
http://medinfo.ufl.edu/year1/bcs96/clist/history.html

Puzzle Makers (Free)

Create crossword puzzles to print. You can create your own, or use one of theirs. There are quite a few here about anatomy and physiology.
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/printable-worksheets/make-your-own/crossword/

Create crossword or word search puzzles.
http://www.armoredpenguin.com/

Eclipse Crossword. A free crossword creator that can be downloaded to your computer. The resulting puzzle can be interactive on the Web.
|http://www.greeneclipsesoftware.com/eclipsecrossword/

Free Quiz Makers

Quiz Faber. An excellent online quiz program. Many different options for questions. Can have results mailed to you. For instructions on an older version use see Thede, L. Q. (2006). "Nursing-oriented Web resources." CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing 24(3): 124-9. I have experimented with this and was impressed.
http://www.lucagalli.net/en/

Question Writer 3 Basic. For creating multiple choice online questions.
http://www.questionwriter.com/free-quiz-software.html

Free quiz maker for online testing. Creates online tests with combined multiple choice, true false, free text, short answer, fill in the blank, punctuation and essay questions types.
http://www.classmarker.com/?g=teacher.net

Math for Nurses

Medical Mathematics Tutorial for Student Nurses. An excellent, thorough, freely available source.
http://becps.net/

Math Tutorials for Nurses. Click on the help and maximize the screen. From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing.
http://www.iv-therapy.net/node/71

Miscellaneous

Knowledge Weavers Project. Lots of freely available, excellent, tutorials on many health related topics. Worth exploring.
http://library.med.utah.edu/km/digitalcollectkw.php

Education for Staff and Patients. Some of these are helpful, some are not.
http://www.iv-therapy.net/node/71

MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials, submitted for use by faculty, are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. These materials are available free of use to anyone. To find nursing materials, search for the topic.
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Mrs. Reynolds Needs a Nurse. Many of you may remember this film from school days. It is now available for free viewing on the Web. Uniforms are dated, but the information is still current.
http://www.son.washington.edu/about/h_mrs-reynolds.asp

Venepuncture& Peripheral IV Cannulation Study Day
library.nhsggc.org.uk/mediaAssets/Nursing%20and%20Midwifery/ven%20can%20aug09%20-%20without%20movie%20clips.ppt

Patient Education for a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC)
www.huntsmancancer.org/images/stories/factsheets/picc.pdf

PICC Line Video for Patients from Mayo Clinic
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/picc-line-placement/MM00781/rss=1

IV Essentials. Very helpful with accompanying photographs.
www.rn.com/getpdf.php/640.pdf

SlideShare. Slides submitted by others on many topics. No audio in the ones that I viewed. Search for nursing to find nursing slides.
http://www.slideshare.net/

Second Life

Interview with John Miller, nursing faculty at Tacoma Community College. He uses Second Life, a multi-player user environment to teach. There are other links about using Second Life in education
http://geoffcain.podcastpeople.com/posts/12509

Some background information about Second Life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life

Videos of Second Life
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=second+life&qpvt=second+life&FORM=VDRE

Virtual Reality

Beier, K. P. Virtual Reality: A Short Introduction. A short article with illustrations.
http://www-vrl.umich.edu/intro/

Virtual Reality. A thorough description of many aspects of virtual reality.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Virtual_reality

Websites from the Text in Chapter 22

Learning styles questionnaire at http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

Dale’s cone of experience http://teacherworld.com/potdale.html

Flashcard Friends at http://www.flashcardfriends.com/

Electronic flash cards http://www.skyscape.com and Amazon at http://www.amazon.com

Medline interactive tutorials http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/

Care of a Client with Schizophrenia http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=NUR3704

Assessing Blood Pressure http://132.241.10.14/bp/bp.html (No longer available at this URL)Instead go to http://www.csuchico.edu/atep/bp/bp.html

The Kidney Patient Guide http://www.kidneypatientguide.org.uk/site/treatment.php

Outbreak at Water’s Edge: A Public Health Discovery Game at http://www.mclph.umn.edu/watersedge/

Nobelprize.org website http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/

Question Writer from http://www.questionwriter.com/free-quiz-software.html

SurveyMonkey http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Zoomerang http://www.zoomerang.com/

NCSBN simulation exam http://www.pearsonvue.com/nclex/#tutorial or for direct download www.pearsonvue.com/nclex/NCLEX_Tutorial.msi

MERLOT at http://www.merlot.org

Dalhousie University Common Currency Project http://currency.medicine.dal.ca/video.htm

Martindale’s Reference Desk http://www.martindalecenter.com/

YouTube http://www.youtube.com/

Open Simulator http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page

Croquet http://www.opencroquet.org

Second Life http://www.secondlife.com/

Ambient Intelligence.org at http://www.ambientintelligence.org/

METIman, PediaSIM, BabySIM, HPS. iStan http://www.meti.com/which_sim.htm

SimMan®, SimJunior™, SimMom™, SimBaby™ http://www.laerdal.com/nav/207/Patient-Simulators

Virtual I.V. http://www.laerdal.com/doc/245/Virtual-I-V-Simulator

NurseSquared http://www.nursesquared.com/

iCare http://www.icareacademic.com/

Neehr Perfect® http://www.neehrperfect.com/

Clicker Resource Guide at http://www.cwsei.ubc.ca/resources/files/Clicker_guide_CWSEI_CU-SEI.pdf

iRespond™ http://www.irespond.com

TurningPoint http://www.turningtechnologies.com/

eInstruction http://www.einstruction.com/

Senteo™ http://www2.smarttech.com

eClicker http://eclicker.com/

PollDaddy http://polldaddy.com/

MicroPoll http://www.micropoll.com/

Bravenet Web Poll http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/minipoll/

ADA standards for e-learning is available at http://www.access-board.gov/508.htm and http://www.gatech.edu/accessibility.php

Kidney School http://www.kidneyschool.org

Health Sciences Editorial Board peer-review criteria http://hercules.gcsu.edu/jsewell/MERLOT/HSPeerReviewGuide.htm (No longer available at this URL)

Learning Object Review Instrument
http://www.elera.net/eLera/Home/About%20%20LORI/

Sharable Content Object Repositories for Education http://www.sreb.org/programs/edtech/SCORE/index.asp (No longer available at this URL)Instead go to http://www.sreb.org/page/1160/digital_contentscore.html

CE learning resources at http://nursingworld.org/ce/cehome.cfm (No longer available at this URL)Instead go to http://ananursece.healthstream.com/

Next generation e-learning environment http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0643.pdf

Websites from the Reference List in Chapter 22

Adams, W., CU Science Education Initiative, & UBC Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative. (2009, July 1). Clicker resource guide. Retrieved October 31, 2010, from http://cnx.org/content/col10724/latest/

Advanced Distributed Learning. (2010, October 29). Frequently asked facts about SCORM. Retrieved October 31, 2010, from http://www.adlnet.gov/Documents/SCORM%20FAQ.aspx (No longer available at this URL)Try instead http://www.getthesis.com/faq.htm

Bluetooth laser virtual keyboard. (2010). Retrieved October 31, 2010, from http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/8193/

Chickering, A. W., & Ehrmann, S. C. (1996). Implementing the seven principles: Technology as lever. Retrieved January 29, 2008, from http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html

Eon Reality. (2008). i3D Symposium. Retrieved October 31, 2010, from http://www.eonreality.com/i3DSymposium/SiMT/FlorenceSC/

Greenberg, L. (2002, December 9). LMS and LCMS: What’s the difference? Retrieved September 12, 2007, from http://www.learningcircuits.org/NR/exeres/72E3F68C-4047-4379-8454-2B88C9D38FC5.htm (No longer available at this URL)Instead find this at scripts.cac.psu.edu/staff/g/m/gms/fa07/IST-440W/LMS%20and%20LCMS_%20What%27s%20the%20Difference_.pdf

Half-Baked Software Inc. (2009). What is Quandary? Retrieved August 31, 2011, from http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php

Hillegass, A. (2010). eClicker overview. Retrieved October 31, 2010, from http://bnreclicker.appspot.com/eClicker_Host_Overview.pdf

Jafari, A., McGee, P., & Carmean, C. (2006). Managing courses, defining learning: What faculty, students, and administrators want. EDUCAUSE Review, 41(4), 50–71. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0643.pdf

Johnson, L., Smith, R., Willis, H., Levine, A., and Haywood, K., (2011). The 2011 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. Retrieved August 31, 2011 from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf

KCTCS. (2009). Interactive Digital Center. Retrieved October 31, 2010, from http://www.kctcs.edu/system_initiatives/interactive-digital-center.aspx

Medical Education Institute. (2006). Kidney School™: Unique CKD education tool. In Control, 3(2), 4. Retrieved from http://www.lifeoptions.org/catalog/pdfs/news/icv3n2.pdf

MERLOT. (n.d.). MERLOT: About us. Retrieved October 31, 2010, from http://taste.merlot.org/

NCSBN. (n.d.). Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) overview. Retrieved October 31, 2010, from https://www.ncsbn.org/CAT_Overview.pdf

Respondus®. (2010). Studymate Author 2.0. Retrieved October 29, 2010, from http://www.respondus.com/products/studymate.shtml

SoftChalk LLC. (2010). SoftChalk™. Retrieved October 31, 2010, from http://www.softchalk.com/

Thalheimer, W. (2006). People remember 10%, 20%… Oh really? Retrieved October 31, 2010, from http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/05/people_remember.html

The New Media Consortium & Educause Learning Initiative. (2011). The horizon report: 2008 edition. Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf

ThinkExist.com, Q. (2010). William Authur Ward quotes. Retrieved October 31, 2010, from http://thinkexist.com/quotation/if_you_can_imagine_it-you_can_achieve_it-if_you/15190.html

U.S. Office of Technical and Institutional Services. (n.d.). E-learning: Conforming to section 508. Retrieved October 31, 2010, from http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/elearning.htm (No longer available at this URL)Instead go to: http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/e-learning.htm

Young, J. R. (2010, February 14). After frustrations in Second Life, colleges look to new virtual worlds. The Chronicle. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/After-Frustrations-in-Second/64137/

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