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The National League for Nursing advances excellence in nursing education that prepares the nursing workforce to meet the needs of diverse populations in an ever-changing healthcare environment.

"The partners piloted the learning objects and case studies in their own programs and facilitated the dissemination and adoption by others. In order to do this in a cost-effective, quality manner, four types of teams collaborate on meeting the following objectives:"

"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

This paper analyzes the current move in business school pedagogy from the traditional case study method to digital cases. It discusses the impacts of digital case studies and the differences between moving traditional "cooked" cases online versus providing truly "raw" case data that is open-ended and allows for multiple solutions.

It seems that Case Studies are a common activitity in Nursing courses. This article may help you 'breath new life' into the typical case study approach.

Good information about use of simulation in nursing education.

LARGE list of collaboration tools - well respected and comprehensive list (as much as an internet list can be)

The courses I found were from the United Kingdom which would help students see a different health care system.

The Second Life Official Site and place to download the software