title: CD-ROM: towards a strategy for teaching and learning.
abstract: Compact Disc Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) represents an exciting innovation in nurse education yet paradoxically has a potential to induce disillusionment and frustration. Purchasers of systems may well find that their investment does not bring the benefits they had been lead to expect. CD-ROM systems have the capacity to generate huge quantities of data on an equally large number of nursing topics. Arguably this very capability ensures certain 'built-in' problems. The purpose of this articles is to provide nurse teachers with information about CD-ROM, to highlight the resource implications of CD-ROM use and to consider the relative merits of various teaching and learning methods. To be worthwhile, strategies developed must be part of an information retrieval skills programme.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aarvold
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Walton
mesh_terms: D016251:CD-ROM; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans