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ABSTRACT This paper reports the findings of a case study in which audio feedback replaced text-based feedback in asynchronous courses. Previous research has demonstrated that participants in online courses can build effective learning communities through text based communication alone. Similarly, it has been demonstrated that instructors for online courses can adequately project immediacy behaviors using textbased communication.

"Six Nursing faculty and one graduate student participated in a CIT Fellows Program to develop methods evaluate the quality of the School's online courses. The group created an evaluation rubric, applied it to their courses, and conducted student focus groups to provide feedback about online course quality. "

Standardized rubric for online classes produced by faculty at the Duke School of Nursing

THE COURSE OF INNOVATION: Using Technology to Transform Higher Education By Ben Miller Course redesign examples in a 29 page report

Could give you ideas as to how to redesign a course to be higher quality

"ION is always trying to further the knowledge of online education. In the course of our research and practice, we come across many best practices in online teaching. This index represents a compilation of those activities to help instructors plan their online and hybrid courses. A complete description of each activity is given, along with examples when possible. "

A good resource of online teaching activities such as - Case Studies, ice breakers, jigsaw, peer editing, role playing, etc. If you are designing or re-designing an online class, look here for inspiration.

A search results page for a search engine for free online courses.

I wonder if any of our nursing schools have open courses. Could we put the iNET CEU and IOM modules here?

This is a short video that adminstration should look at as it recommends that online courses be developed by a team of 3 and 2 should be content experts. I wonder how often this happens in distance education or for in class on campus courses. Truely a good recommendation to have a quality product. Many first taught online coures are meager at best and faculty should become content experts in an area and allowed to teach the same course over a number of years in order to develop an online course toward the rubric.

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"The Online Teaching Guide was developed by faculty members from the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) under the guidance of the Duke Center for Instructional Technology (CIT). The work of this group culminated in this resource for faculty members who want to enhance their ability to plan effective online learning experiences for students. This guide serves as a user-friendly and practical tool to assist faculty in planning and implementing online courses."

might be able to use this as a supplement in a course.

Highlights the tendency to recreate the victorian, traditional classroom in Second Life and offers some quick examples of alternative experience

"Second life does provide social presence through the avatars we use, lots of opportunities for role play (let's face it, it is at a minimum a role play game), and yes it is immersive, allowing you to experience human from inside the cell walls or visit a detailed simulation of the Cistine Chapel. But the real power of Second Life as a virtual venue for your teaching and learning is the ability to translate real content into something really exciting and powerful. That of course is where the difficulty lies isn't it?"

I just wanted to pass along this thought provoking video. It might be a good introduction to a nurse educator course. Changing Education Paradigm video with Spanish Subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z78aaeJR8no&feature=related There are a series of these animated talks, many of them available for the iPhone. There is more information at the end of the video.

"Cary Moskovitz has been using the concept of "think aloud" responses in his writing courses, getting professionals in various fields at Duke to record comments and feedback on student papers. Students gain valuable insight from a reader familiar with the subject area of the paper and gain a better sense of ownership of their writing in a "real world" situation."

"Dr. Drew Polly, College of Education, UNC Charlotte, joins Maria again to talk about using social bookmarking tools. Drew describes what social bookmarking is and how your students can use the tools to meet a course goal. He also emphasizes the importance of taking the time to evaluate, analyze and annotate the bookmarks so they'll provide valuable and useful information."

A terrific podcast about Social bookmarking

"Claroline is an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web."

This is an open source LMS, which could be compared to MOODLE

After a quick review, i would say this open source is much more friendly than Moodle and feels more like you are in a microsoft application...definitely worth use

Free Lecture Tools to work as a supplement with your courses, just need to register.

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

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Duke University project uses iPads in a pilot for Global Health course

"This orientation is organized into four stages of teaching an online class."