title: Teaching an online course.
abstract: An online pharmacology course was developed for nursing students in the associate degree program at Delaware County Community College, Media, PA. The course was a response to an expressed need from students for more pharmacology content in their curriculum and as part of an articulation agreement with Widener University School of Nursing, Chester, PA, registered nurse to a masters of science in nursing program. Course design was a team effort among faculty and instructional technology specialists. Faculty developed a list of features the course needed to deliver the content as well as instructional activities designed to help learning to occur. Instructional technology specialists designed the course layout, chose the appropriate software needed to support the course design, and developed original programming as necessary. These elements were woven into a course that is tailored to our instructional design. In the years since the course was first offered, changes have been made to increase interaction between students and to provide all aspects of the course online, including testing. Teaching online challenges faculty to learn new technical skills as well as to think about new ways of teaching.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing and Allied Health, Delaware County Community College, 901 South Media Line Road, Media, PA 19063, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004507:Education, Nursing, Associate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010600:Pharmacology / Q000193:education*; D016730:Program Development; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*