Reflections on several years of online teaching

24^th World Nursing and Healthcare Conference

September 13-15, 2018 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Linda E Jensen,Lynn Frederick

Clarkson College, USA

Our Lady of the Lake University, USA

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Adv Practice Nurs

Abstract :

This presentation reflects on the shift from face to face teaching to online teaching at the college level, especially in colleges of Nursing and other health professions. The authors use the 10 Principles of Effective Online Teaching: Best Practices in Distance Education developed by Penn Stateâ??s World Campus1 and numerous other sources to evaluate their own practices and adjustment after over ten years of online teaching. The principles include: Show up and Teach, Practice Proactive Course Management Strategies, Establish Patterns of Activities, Plan for the Unplanned, Response Requested and Expected, Think Before You Write, Help Maintain Forward Progress, Safe and Secure, Quality Counts, and (Double) Click a Mile on My Connection. Informal data collection of comments from other higher education professors showed concerns about adaptations for online teaching. A recent change in learning management systems for one author validated and increased previous frustrations with learning new technology that seems more cumbersome and less adaptable. The presentation will close with recommendations for the authorsâ?? own improvement in designing courses for online learning, as well as suggestions for institutions that employ online faculty to teach courses designed by someone other than the instructor. This presentation could also be given as a workshop, with additional information and hands on examples.

Biography :

Linda Jensen, PhD, RN, Professor Graduate Nursing, Clarkson College, has taught and worked in nursing for over 50 years. Her research in nursing education, perinatal depression, and mental health recovery has been presented at conferences in the US, Australia, Austria, Hong Kong, Paris, Japan, and published in several nursing journals. Lynn Frederick, PhD, LISW, MSW, Online Instructor, Walden Univ. and Our Lady of the Lake Univ. She began social work practice in 1974, is licensed at the highest level in SC and has been teaching social work and sociology since 1991. She has consulted and made presentations in several European countries and in the US since the 1980’s. She currently teaches graduate social work students online.