Teaching on line courses?

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I am not starting nursing school until summer 2009. When I start I want to get my BSN and as soon as I can (and have the clinical requirments) I want to start on my masters and teach. I have taught high school before so I'm pretty sure that i will like teaching in nursing school. I have noticed that more and more classes are totally or at least partially on line. I was wondering do any of you know of any online classes where I could learn how to teach on line and learn the various programs typically used like blackboard and WebCT? I've got some time now and would love to be learning how to use these programs and set up classes.

Thanks.

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

Any technology you learn now will be obsolete by the time you are qualified to teach nursing. It's a field that is progressing at a very rapid rate. You might want to browse a few books on the topic to satisfy your curiousity, but don't count on much of it to be relevant by the time you are ready to teach.

Given the number of nursing students who start out with career plans similar to yours who end up changing their minds and/or not succeeding in nursing, you might be best off using your current time to prepare to succeed in nursing school. Take it one step at a time.

Good luck to you.

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Specializes in Hospice, Palliative Care, Gero, dementia.

The field of on-line teaching is very new, so the pedagogy is also new. Our SON recently hired a person with a DEd whose focus was on-line learning. She has been working with the faculty to help them develop courses and approaches to teaching that are more appropriate to the milieu. As this form of teaching (and the software) is developing, I would say that, if your focus really is on-line teaching, when the time comes to get that MNE, seek out relevant journal articles and courses. If you do wind up going that path, I would focus not on the technology but the pedagogy (although it's not all different, but there are some things that need to be rethought). I think the move towards learner-centered education has the potential to be advanced by on-line learning.

As llg stated, focus on getting through your nursing program now. If you're really bored, go to the university/college near you, do a CINAHL search using "computer assisted education" OR "education, non-traditional" AND "education, nursing" and you should find a few articles to keep you occupied. (With a field that is changing as fast as this, you're better off reading journal articles than books which are obsolete before they are pressed)

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Google online teaching certificates. Check out http://www.petersons.com

You can find numerous schools that offer online teaching degrees or certificates. Keep your dream alive!

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

I will be starting back for my MSN Jan. 2009 and I too am interested in online teaching. A local college offers an online certificate program in online teaching, here's a link: http://nursing.iupui.edu/continuing/teachingweb.shtml

Also, there is a website for online teaching opportunities: http://home.surewest.net/tcsmith/oi-jobs.htm

Just a few places you can look for some ideas! Good luck to you!

Kacy

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Specializes in Nursing instructor, Geriatrics.
I will be starting back for my MSN Jan. 2009 and I too am interested in online teaching. A local college offers an online certificate program in online teaching, here's a link: http://nursing.iupui.edu/continuing/teachingweb.shtml

Also, there is a website for online teaching opportunities: http://home.surewest.net/tcsmith/oi-jobs.htm

Just a few places you can look for some ideas! Good luck to you!

Kacy

Thanks...I will check this out:up: I have always wondered how to obtain an online instructor position so I appreciate it.:yeah:

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Specializes in Nursing instructor, Geriatrics.

Also, there is a website for online teaching opportunities: http://home.surewest.net/tcsmith/oi-jobs.htm

I checked out this website and the last jobs listed are 2007. The website is confusing because it is so broad.

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Specializes in Educator/ICU/ER.

I took my Masters in Nursing Education at OU College of Nursing. It was totally online which required that I be self-disciplined. I am very disciplined and did well. Teaching at a College of Nursing is very different from any other. The students will have lives in their hands and I feel very responsible. The ones that make it through ar very prepared as a bedside nurse!

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Specializes in ICU, Education.

First, I think if you're going to teach nursing (be it online or live) you need nursing experience. Second, I agree with the prior poster who emphasized the pedagogy rather than the technology of online teaching. My Master's program was entirely online. Online learning is not feasible for entry level where pshycomotor skill learning assessment is required. However, the online format has a great deal to offer in the way of performance assessment. The assignments in my online graduate classes taught me so very much. I have saved all of my big assignments. I developed change projects, programs, business plans, etc.- some of them real and some of them hypothetical--but all backed by evidnece and literature. Online learning requires self-discipline and is also self driven (learning contracts adn reflective journaling are used often). Adult learning theory plays a big part. So... the technical aspect will always be there, sure--but you work with that daily and it is always changing. I agree with an earlier poster that the learning theories regardaing online learning are much more important than the technology. And agian, clinical experience is paramount.

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