Mentoring in Nursing Education and Instructional Design by Janine Kelley
Their are many resources for instructional design in nursing education and many ways teachers can reach out to mentor students or include students in mentoring other students. D2L and other learning platforms also include Facebook and other social media sites that can be utilized to reach out to students. The purpose of this blog is to share information and instructional designs that can be used to reach students as well as share information related to nursing education topics that students can use.
The instructional design behind this blog is related to the e-learning model of Read, Reflect, Display, and Do (R2D2) model which was specifically designed to address varied student learning preferences (Bonk & Zhang, 2008). The model gives many examples of learning activities that can be developed specifically for on-line learning. Constructivism is the learning theory that supports this type of learning and encourages multi-level learning for a variety of learners. Constructivism stems from the cognitive learning theory and includes the use of many different learning theories and models to achieve learning including experiential learning and situated cognition.
A mentoring blog site can be designed to allow students to ask questions of teachers and receive needed mentoring along with students potentially mentoring other students in the process.
Examples of R2D2 could include: (from Table 1.3. Learning Activities in each phase of R2D2, p. 11)
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Reading = Expert Lectures and Commentary
Reflecting = Online Role Play Reflections
Displaying = Animations
Doing = Digital Storytelling
Please feel free to comment and add any additional learning methods and ideas related to developing a mentoring blog site for students! It would be wonderful if we could create something for students that could be accessed and shared by any nursing student and instructor that would like to participate and contribute!
Thank you for consideration and I look forward to your posts! Let's create a mentoring site that will engage our students!
Janine Kelley, Clinical Nursing Instructor
PhD Student at Kramer School of Nursing at Oklahoma City University
I can be contacted at pjkelley15@gmail.com
Reference: Bonk, C. J., & Zhang, K. (2008). Empowering Online Learning: 100 + Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, & Doing. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Janine,
ReplyDeleteI am grateful to be reading your blog. Keep up the good work. We cannot have enough gracious and willing mentors in the nursing profession especially in education. Thank you.
Thank you Angela. My hope is that we could really develop a site where students can come and discuss issues and learn from their peers and experts. That would be nice. If I could get this off the ground, I'd love to have your input and an expert!
ReplyDeleteI will share this with other nurse educators I know. Good job Janine.
ReplyDeleteThank you Staci. I loved your facebook page as well and I actually went out and shared with most of my nurse friends on facebook!
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