Technology-Enhanced Learning
in the
University of Minnesota
Academic Health Center
Janet Shanedling, PhD
Director, Educational Development
AHC Office of Education
Minnesota Rural Health Conference
July 2006
University of Minnesota
School of Nursing
Technology
Enhanced
Learning
In
Graduate
Nursing
Increasing Access
• HRSA funding (over $2.5 million) received
in 2000 and 2004
• 5 graduate specialties available online:
– Nurse-midwifery
– Women’s health nurse practitioner
– Public health nursing
– Nursing and health care systems
administration
– Psychiatric-mental health CNS
How it works
• Two-day orientation on campus
• Two seminars on campus each semester
(some include one long seminar; clinical
courses may have three or four seminars)
• All core courses available online
• Interactive learning activities
• Full and part time options available
Examples of interactive, online
learning activities
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Audio welcome
Audio over PowerPoint
Self tests
Discussion
cases/questions
Type, click, and tell
Flash animation
Games
Self assessment
For more information…
• www.nursing.umn.edu
– Click: Online Learning
– Sample Module
– Video
• http://www.nursing.umn.edu/OnlineLearning/home.html
School of Public Health
MERET is a program designed to educate
and train Minnesota's healthcare workers
in emergency preparedness.
Modules currently in development
(available later this summer)
• Standard Precautions and Respiratory Hygiene
• Transmission-Based Precautions
• Multiple Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs)
• Protect Yourself First with Full Barrier Precaution
• Design and Maintenance of Airborne Infection
Isolation Rooms (AIIR)
• Methods for Achieving Temporary Negative
Pressure Isolation (TNPI)
• Respiratory Protection
• Risk Communication
• Hospital Decontamination Teams
• H5N1 Avian Influenza
For more information…
• Modules will be available at the
MERET Web site in September 2006,
at: http://www.meret.umn.edu
• Modules will be free of charge.
• They will be offered in a Flash format,
online.
Public Health Emergency Training
For more information…
• Modules are available at
http://www.sph.umn.edu/umncphp
• Modules are free of charge.
• Contact: 612 626-4515 or
[email protected] for questions.
Introduction to Public Health Practice
For more information…
• Modules are available at
http://www.publichealthplanet.org
• Click on Registration.
• Modules are free of charge.
U of M Academic Health Center
Office of Education
Information on distribution will be announced in
October 2006 following the pilot test and
finalization of modules.