CCCC Hosts Seminar
Mammoth Lakes Campus, Summer 2005
Education, Nursing, and Technology
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Donna Headrick, RN from Bakersfield
Community College. Headrick wants to develop a pharmacology
online course. |
Nursing education is changing. Arising from a background of confined
classroom lectures and hospital-based clinical experiences, nursing
education has been a cornerstone of traditional education. The need for
nurses and the lack of nurse educators have forced changes in the
approaches to teaching nursing and other health career courses.
In conjunction with the statewide California Virtual Campus (CVC4),
Cerro Coso Community
College
hosted seminars at its Mammoth Lakes campus from June 20-24, 2005. The
goal was to offer educational workshops in the areas of online and
interactive TV curriculum development. Full-time and adjunct community
college faculty were invited. Lectures from experts in the disciplines
of online and interactive teaching plus practical hands-on experiences
were parts of the workshops. The three tracts offered were: Online
Teaching-Beginning, Online Teaching-Intermediate, and Interactive TV.
Instructors from numerous places in the State of California as well as
Arizona and Mexico attended these workshops. Nursing faculty were
well-represented. The interest in the technology-based courses varied as
some of the nurses were novices in the areas of non-traditional
coursework while other nurses had been using variations of online
studies for several years. Many of the nurse participants had some
experiences either teaching online courses, taking courses online, or
taking the Cerro Coso Community College Online Faculty Certification
Training Program.
Yuba College in Marysville, CA has been running ITV courses for 10 years
stated Jane Poynter, RN. She came with Colleen Monahan, RN and Roxanne
Snyder, RN. Monahan will be teaching via ITV in the fall. Pointer uses
online and web technologies to enhance her medical-surgical courses for
both LVN and RN students. Snyder is a clinical specialist and teaches
psychology. Eventually, Snyder plans on having all psychology courses
online. Currently, Yuba College instructors augment their on-ground
lecture courses with online or Web CT capabilities. At Yuba College, all
nursing courses are televised to other campuses. Pharmacology is offered
on regular cable TV.
Hybrid courses (a mixture of face-to-face courses and online courses)
are highly popular with the nursing instructors who attended the
workshops. Poynter noted that the mixture of face-to-face and online
learning is beneficial to the students because the method meets all
different learning styles plus it allows students to interact at
different levels. One definite advantage of online courses is that it
enhances problem-based learning. Students are more likely to meet
specific goals and objectives.
In hybrid courses, some classes meet face-to-face once per week in the
classroom and once per week online. This type of course enables students
to be part of a class with both direct student and instructor
interaction and indirect facilitated support. Several nurses at the
Summer Seminar noted that nursing students often travel long distances
to get to on-ground classrooms. The ability to limit or eliminate travel
to and from a traditional classroom setting has great potential for
nursing students because it provides access to nursing courses to
individuals who are often hindered by physical distance from a college
campus.
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(L-R) RNs Pam Avila and Lupe Guillen from
Porterville College. Guillen will be teaching ITV for the
BC-PC-CC LVN to RN/ADN Program in August 2005. |
Representing
Kern Community College District were Lupe Guillen, RN and Pam Abela RN
from Porterville College, Donna Headrick, RN from Bakersfield College
and Mary Kowalski, RN from Cerro Coso College. Headrick and Kowalski
plan on offering pharmacology courses for nurses online in the near
future. Bakersfield College has had nursing ITV Courses for about 4
years. In Fall 2005, Bakersfield College will be sponsoring its second
LVN to RN/ADN career ladder course linking Bakersfield, Porterville, and
Cerro Coso via Interactive TV. Guillen will be using her new knowledge
as an ITV instructor of psychology for this LVN to ADN Program.
Linda Hoogenkijk, RN is a nursing faculty member at Evergreen Community
College in San Jose. She took the Beginning Online workshop in order to
enhance her teaching techniques with the eventual goal of teaching
hybrid courses.
Supplemental electives enhancing technology-based teaching were also
offered. In addition to teaching the ITV Tract, Dr. Greg Chamberlain,
Dean for Learning Resources and Information Technology at Bakersfield
College, presented several pertinent and popular courses. These courses
included Introduction to instructional Design, 10 Great Myths about
Distance Learning, Copyright Issues and Concerns, and Cheating and
Plagiarism.
Curtis
Pembrook provided electives in the areas of Managing Threaded
Discussions, WebQuest and Problem-Based Learning, Using Articulate to
Create Online Presentations, and Introduction to Section 508 of the
American with Disabilities Act.
A third set of electives was offered by Anne Guptill. She presented
Beginning Dreamweaver, Using Snagit Software, Digital Editing, and
PowerPoint for the Web. Matt Hightower, Director of CCCC Online,
presented an elective on managing student’s grades with Excel.
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The CCCC Mammoth Lakes campus looking
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View of Mammoth Lakes during the CVC4/CCCC
Mammoth Lakes Summer 2005 Seminar |
Nurses, who attended the various workshops, were able to exchange views
with other, non nursing faculty in their tracts or electives. The
classroom discussions and lunchtime conversations between nursing and
non nurses seemed to be a highlight of the week. An equal amount of
information was exchanged between students as was given from the
instructors, stated Kowalski from Cerro Coso. The students learned by
exchanging instructional techniques, instructional design methods, and
variations of course development.
Teresa Simbro, RN, Judy Francis, RN, and Alice Rehm, RN teach various
segments of Santa Ana College’s ADN Program including fundamentals,
medical-surgical nursing, psychiatric nursing and maternity/child
nursing. Santa Ana’s nursing faculty are interested in augmenting their
existing lecture courses with online supplements. One goal of Santa Ana
College’s nursing program is to offer more online and/or hybrid courses.
The
week at Mammoth Lakes was not all grueling work. The trees were lush and
green. The air was crisp, clear, and dry. The weather cooperated with
clear blue skies that urged participants to take long walks after class.
The creeks, lakes, and rivers were full due to the near-record amounts
of winter snow. Workshop participants could balance the high-tech
internal environment while watching the deer that were crossing the road
near the college. One individual stated that she spotted a bear at the
roadside on the way into town. The participants stated that they learned
a great deal, enjoyed the beautiful campus, and are looking forward to
another summer seminar next year.
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