title: Strategic use of faculty workgroups to develop online interactive geriatric curricular modules.
abstract: Initiating a college-wide, complex multimedia approach to teaching-learning can be fraught with considerable challenges. The strategic use of faculty workgroups to maximize faculty involvement in the development and use of interactive Web-based modules was one successful approach to overcoming such challenges. Use of faculty workgroups composed of grant team faculty members and course faculty during the development process recognized the faculty's curricular and content expertise and tapped individual creativity. Other successful approaches to meeting development challenges were the inclusion of a multimedia designer in faculty workgroups, demonstrations of technology at college council meetings and the use of familiar software by faculty to communicate module design ideas. Additional practical approaches for technology teams within higher education settings are presented from both person and design perspectives.
authors.affiliation: Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA. jdgrabb@ilstu.edu
authors.forename: Jeff D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Grabb
authors.forename: Brenda Recchia
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Jeffers
authors.forename: Sara L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D020407:Internet / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D019212:Multimedia / Q000592:standards*; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D009862:Online Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration; D016730:Program Development; D014146:Training Support; D014584:User-Computer Interface