1. Technology-Enhanced Learning in the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center Janet Shanedling, PhD Director, Educational Development AHC Office of Education Minnesota Rural Health Conference July 2006

2. T echnology E nhanced L earning InIn G raduate N ursing University of Minnesota School of Nursing

3. Increasing Access HRSA funding (over $2.5 million) received in 2000 and 2004 5 graduate specialties available online: –Nurse-midwifery –Women’s health nurse practitioner –Public health nursing –Nursing and health care systems administration –Psychiatric-mental health CNS

4. How it works Two-day orientation on campus Two seminars on campus each semester (some include one long seminar; clinical courses may have three or four seminars) All core courses available online Interactive learning activities Full and part time options available

5. Examples of interactive, online learning activities Audio welcome Audio over PowerPoint Self tests Discussion cases/questions Type, click, and tell Flash animation Games Self assessment

6. For more information… www.nursing.umn.edu –Click: Online Learning –Sample Module –Video http://www.nursing.umn.edu/OnlineLearning/home.html

7. MERET is a program designed to educate and train Minnesota's healthcare workers in emergency preparedness. School of Public Health

8. Modules currently in development (available later this summer) Standard Precautions and Respiratory Hygiene Transmission-Based Precautions Multiple Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs) Protect Yourself First with Full Barrier Precaution Design and Maintenance of Airborne Infection Isolation Rooms (AIIR) Methods for Achieving Temporary Negative Pressure Isolation (TNPI) Respiratory Protection Risk Communication Hospital Decontamination Teams H5N1 Avian Influenza

12. For more information… Modules will be available at the MERET Web site in September 2006, at: http://www.meret.umn.eduhttp://www.meret.umn.edu Modules will be free of charge. They will be offered in a Flash format, online.

13. Public Health Emergency Training

16. For more information… Modules are available at http://www.sph.umn.edu/umncphp http://www.sph.umn.edu/umncphp Modules are free of charge. Contact: 612 626-4515 or CPHEO@umn.edu for questions. CPHEO@umn.edu

17. Introduction to Public Health Practice

20. For more information… Modules are available at http://www.publichealthplanet.org http://www.publichealthplanet.org Click on Registration. Modules are free of charge.

21. U of M Academic Health Center Office of Education

26. Information on distribution will be announced in October 2006 following the pilot test and finalization of modules.