Inspiring students to learn beyond classrooms
Helen Gordon, assistant professor at Duke University School of Nursing teaches the maternity nursing course in the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN). She always thinks of inspiring ways …
Mastering your art: MERLOT Pedagogy Portal
If you have questions such as How do I teach large lecture classes effectively? How do I engage my students in problem-based learning? Do I have to teach adult learners …
iPads in Medical Education and Clinical Care
Guest post by Bradford Perez, MD, Duke School of Medicine
The goal of our project was to improve the quality of medical education and clinical care by harnessing new technologies we thought would help with information gathering and clinical decision-making. We distributed iPads to members of two teams in internal medicine and asked them to complete weekly surveys about the experience for eight weeks.
New Master of Biostatistics Program at Duke SOM
The Duke University Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics is excited to launch the new Master of Biostatistics Program in Fall 2011. This two-year degree program seeks to provide students with the analytical, biological, and communication skills that will ensure successful contribution to the rapidly-expanding field of biomedical research.
The program offers both degree and non-degree options. […]
Nurse educators share resources via Diigo
Innovative Nursing Education Technologies (iNet) at the Duke School of Nursing has been using Diggo since 2009 to create a space for nurse educators to share Web sites and digital resources related to nursing education and technology.
iNet encourages the use of social bookmarking with Diigo to:
Create bookmarks for class topics
Have students share Web sites with […]
The iPad in Medical Education and Clinical Care
During the Fall semester of 2010, Brad Perez (Duke School of Medicine) and Megan von Isenburg (Duke Medical Center Library) will explore use of iPads to provide access to clinical tools and patient education information, and assess how these tools impact clinical decision making.
Bb Tip: Give student groups private spaces to work in Blackboard
Blackboard’s Groups feature allows instructors to provide a group of students with their own set of communication tools that only the group members can access. A group of students collaborating …
Earn $1,000 in Patient Education Video Competition
Innovative Nursing Education Technologies (iNET), a 3-year federally funded project, a collaborative effort among Duke University, Western Carolina University and University of North Carolina-Charlotte, is looking for teams (one member …
Follow the Twitter Soap Opera created by Duke School of Nursing
Duke’s medical simulation mannequin tweets about love and his medical misadventures during Valentine’s week. A Twitter soap opera created by Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) debuts Monday, February 8, …
See what students see: enroll in a sample Blackboard site
Ever wondered what students see when they log onto your Blackboard course? Ever asked yourself what Blackboard can do besides letting you upload your syllabus? We have constructed a sample …