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A full version of the book "Learning and Teaching in the Virtual World of Second Life" By Judith Molka-Danielsen, Mats Deutschmann

"Book Highlights from Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation By Patricia Benner, Molly Sutphen, Victoria Leonard and Lisa Day"

Many comments (185) - pro and con http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/06/bill-gates-education/ * college needs to be less "place-based," * overall point is that it's just too expensive and too hard to get these upper-level educations. * soon place-based college educations will be five times less important than they are today. * no matter how you came about your knowledge, you should get credit for it. * textbooks are too long... even in grade school some are 300 pages. * our text books are three times longer than the equivalents in Asia.

This lecture is used in a course on HIV at the School of Nursing online lecture by Elizabeth Pisani, a British epidemiologist who wrote the book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS. She is a great speaker, and the folks in my HIV class loved it. She talks about the first needle exchange program in the world, which was--get this--started by Margaret Thatcher

"Qualitative Research Online resources to aid in conducting, finding, using, synthesizing, and teaching qualitative research in the health sciences."

comprehensive collection of materials to help nurse educators understand and conduct qualitative research