A select cut

A select cut of a dozen guiding principles for learning about computer technology in nursing education*

1. The professor does not know all the answers…
2. Collaboration, community, and teamwork are the backbone of online learning…
3. Students are encouraged, urged, and expected to act upon their own learning needs…
4. Online learning requires active participation, involvement, and effort. It is hard work.
5. Give and share resources, computer skills, and resources.
6. Take new risks, boldly go where no nurse has gone before…
7. No wimps. No whiners. There is too much to learn, and too little time.Learning about computer technology is incompatible with cowardice, whining, and complaining.
8. Try to find reliable, current web based resources.
9. Aim for a paperless course. Go green- use your screen.
10. Be creative, use critical thinking skills (after all, you ARE a nurse) Form educated opinions and be ready to defend them in a scholarly way.
11. Make it fun. Learning is easier that way. (See page 2 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 1979).
12. The professor does not know all of the answers…
    *(with apologies to Barbara Carty’s Nursing Informatics)
    Please take some time to learn even more.
    Find out about some of the historical roots guiding technology in nursing education
    http://www.aacn.nche.edu/publications/WhitePapers/whitepaper.htm
    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=129663
    Learn the lingo
    https://www.ncsbn.org/836.htm
    Read some research
    http://cade.athabascau.ca/vol15.1/gillis.html
    Take a tutorial
    http://e-articles.info/e/a/title/Guiding-Principles-Underlying-the-Design-of-a-Blended-Curriculum/