Web 2.0 Tools in Medical and Nursing Schools

Social networking is a great tool for helping to create a collaborative learning environment. Increasingly, nursing students have been using blogs, wiki's and pod casts.

These tools help to build information literacy skills, no matter how rural the setting.

Here's an article about the use of Web 2.0 tools in Medical and Nursing education in which Lemley and Burnham investigate the use of social networking tools for nursing and medical education:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605032/