Can Mobile Learning Enhance Nursing Practice Education?

Dear CNIE Member,

We would like to invite you to the next presentation in our series of free CIDER sessions. Our next session features a presentation and discussion with Dr. Richard Kenny and Dr. Caroline Park of Athabasca University.
Title: Can Mobile Learning Enhance Nursing Practice Education?

The changing context of health care delivery presents challenges for the teaching and learning of nursing students. There is a need to test the utility of new strategies and tools to supervise students' practice at the point of care, to support their professional development, and to ensure the delivery of safe and effective care to clients in acute care and community settings. In particular, the connectivity potential of mobile devices for practice and teaching/learning remains unexplored.

This presentation will discuss a project to trial the use of mobile learning in the Baccalaureate of Nursing curriculum in a Western Canadian college program. To date, we have completed two studies: a two–stage, formative evaluation study in spring, 2007, and a follow up study in fall, 2007. We will report on the main findings of the two field trials and draw conclusions about the usefulness of mobile learning in this context.

When: Wednesday, February 4th, 2009, 11am – 12pm MDT(Edmonton)

Where: Online via Elluminate at: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.8B71B60F2931D029AC3837DC06B70D

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Invitation to Present

The Spring 2009 schedule of CIDER Sessions is now in the planning phase, and we are looking for distance educators, interested in sharing their research related work with our online community.
CIDER sessions are targeted at distance education researchers, graduate students, and practitioners. Each session features an active researcher talking about their project, methodologies used, and their results. The sessions are presented free of charge and recorded for playback from the CIDER site.
If you are interested in presenting your research in a future CIDER session, please contact Lynn Anderson: lynnlo@cogeco.ca

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