New Strategies for Online Nursing Courses
Filed in archive Health Care and Human Services Programs by Jamie Littlefield on February 20, 2008

A growing number of nurses take some of their required health care courses online. Many online nursing courses still resemble the traditional, lecture-based classroom format. However, a new Nursing Education Perspectives report suggests that online nursing instructors explore alternative methods of educating their students:
"As the characteristics of nursing students change that is, students are older and have more life experience - the need to emphasize adult learning principles becomes more important. And with the explosion of knowledge demanding effective, Lifelong learningMany online schools incorporate some form of experiential learning into their courses. Project based learning seems to be a move in the right direction for online nursing programs.skills, there is a growing need to search for new and creative approaches to education. One approach, though not new, is problem-based learning (PBL). Used initially in medical education, PBL not only supports the principles of adult and student-centered learning, it also matches the characteristics of successful distance learning. Intended to develop effective critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills, PBL fosters independent, self-directed learning skills and builds an internal motivation to learn and question."
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