I thought I'd share what I've done to prepare students for inclass
activities. When I started 6 years ago, a colleague was struggling with
poor course evals because she adopted a teaching strategy that required students
to acquire the content on their own outside of class. So, when I decided
to adopt the TBL strategy, I knew I would have to provide more guidance
to the approximately 60 graduate nursing students in my GYN course.
Our School purchased Articulate PresenterTM which I used to record all of my
lectures into shorter (10-15 slide) modules which I post to Bb. The
students then review them along with the reading assignments prior to
class. Of course, feedback on course evals still occasionally includes "too
much time needed to review the modules", but more frequently the feedback is
along the lines of appreciating the opportunity to review the modules at their
own pace (sometimes multiple times) and not having to listen to 3 hours of
lecture. Although somewhat time intensive the first semester, the
Articulate program is easy to use, and now I just have to update selected
modules each year. I hope this is helpful.
Robin L. Hills, MS, RN, WHNP-BC
Clinical Assistant Professor
VCU
School of Nursing
Department of Family and Community Health Nursing
Box
980567, Richmond, VA 23298
(804)
828-5578