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The UT Tyler College of Nursing and Health Sciences has been awarded a Sid W. Richardson Foundation grant for $175,000 to expand the online educational outreach program. The grant will allow the College of Nursing and Health Sciences to expand its use of Internet resources to enhance educational programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The goal will be to increase educational outreach efforts, especially to students in rural and medically underserved areas, and enhance the quality of instruction by adding greater interactivity and other features to help students achieve success. “A rapidly developing shortage of nurses and nursing faculty is creating a need for nursing academia to educate larger numbers of students while maintaining high educational standards,” said Dr. Carol Kilmon, associate professor of nursing. “We will expand our use of Internet resources, giving priority to the undergraduate nursing program and our new graduate major in nursing education,” she said. “This will address the key needs of preparing future nurses to serve in rural and urban underserved areas and preparing future educators to replace the large number anticipated to retire during the coming decade.” Some courses are taught completely online, but in most courses the Internet resources will supplement traditional classroom instruction, instruction by interactive television, clinical experiences, group conferences and nursing simulation laboratory experiences, Dr. Kilmon added. The college’s Blackboard system, an online component of undergraduate and graduate courses that provides access to course handouts and supplementary information, will be expanded to provide: practice examinations for self-assessment of content knowledge; streaming video to improve skill development in nursing procedures; online tutorials for selected areas of content; photographic databases to enhance student knowledge of clinical conditions; increased opportunities for student-student and student-faculty interaction; institutional resources to assist faculty in utilizing the Internet as a learning resource; and opportunities for graduate students to design and help implement online teaching strategies. The Richardson Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in Texas to help them fulfill their missions. Grants are made primarily in education, healthcare, human services and the arts. For
information about the UT Tyler College of Nursing
and Health Sciences, call 903-566-4320.
Contact
person: Emily
Battle, (903) 565-5604
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