Technology in Education

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Technology in Education

• Helen R. Connors, R.N.,Ph.D.
• Linda Davies, Ph.D.
• University of Kansas

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Distance Learning
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1990sTechnological Tool Set

• Audio tapes
• Videotapes
• Telephone
• E-mail
• List servers
• CD-ROM

• Satellite
• Two way audio video
• Simulators
• Computers
• WWW - Internet

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INSTRUCTIONAL REVOLUTION
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Student Profile

• OLD
• Student
• Front loaded
• 18 - 22
• Time out education
• Set body knowledge for career
• Single responsibility

• NEW
• Learner/Consumers
• Lifelong learning
• 18 - 80
• Just in time
• Changing workplace/changing career
• Multiple responsibilities

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Information Revolution

• We are now in the middle of an information
  revolution
• Triggered by more fundamental changes
• We are moving rapidly from a world of information
  poverty to abundance

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Telecommunications Act 1996

• February 1996
• Telecommunications can extend the benefits of
  health services and technology to Americans in
  rural areas.

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Telecommunications Act 1996

• Affordable telecommunications services to all
  Americans (Universal Service).
• Telehealth
• Discounted rates
• 400 million
• Schools and libraries
• Discounted rates - 20 -90
• 2.25 billion cap

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• Http//www.fcc.gov/healthnet
• Http//www.fcc.gov/learnnet
• 888-CALL-FCC

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Kansas Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program

• Partnership in Education
• Partnership in Funding

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The KANSAS Model
University of Kansas Medical Center Ft. Hays
State University Wichita State University Pittsbur
g State University
Helen Connors, PhD
Mary Hassett, PhD
Bonnie Holaday, PhD
JoAnn Marrs, EdD
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Kansas Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Classroom
Sites
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Strategic Planning

• Comprehensive planned approach
• Investments in infrastructure, human resources,
  hardware,software, and skills
• Redundancy and waste minimized
• Must reach agreement on strategies and
  technologies to be utilized

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Creating the Infrastructure

• Students
• Faculty
• Curricula
• Institution

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Students

• Highly self motivated
• Disciplined
• Basic technological skill set
• Serious about education and career goals
• Embrace technology and adapt to new learning
  environment

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Students

• Accountability and Responsibility
• Assess own competencies
• Customize their learning environment
• Learner franchised and Individually driven
• Empowers students
• Provide student orientation and support services

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Faculty

• Guide on the Side
• Technical competencies
• Time and resources to support
• Internal support
• Team approach to course development
• Multiple roles

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Barriers

• Traditional reward system
• Workload
• Decision making by committee
• Years of history
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Academic Freedom

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Curricula

• Redefine learning
• Learner Centered - customer focused, buyers
  market
• Interactive
• Unbundled - modular like
• Cost effective
• National Learning Infrastructure (NLI)

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The Institution

• Accountability
• Tough Questions Need Answers
• Appropriateness of curricula
• Value Vs Cost
• Faculty Workload- Productivity
• Performance indicators
• Support for technology-based education
• Cultural change

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Barriers

• Tradition
• Tradition
• Tradition

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