Developing a blended course on dying, loss, and grief.
An important component of end-of-life education is to provide health professionals with content related to dying, loss, and grief. The authors describe the strategies used to develop and offer a blended course (integration of classroom face-to-face learning with online learning) that addressed the sensitive and often emotional content associated with grieving and bereavement. Using Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory, a set of 4 online learning modules, with engaging, interactive elements, was created. Course evaluations demonstrated the success of the blended course in comparison to the traditional, exclusive face-to-face approach.
Center for End-of-Life Transition Research, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing, Room 848, Chicago, IL 60612-7350, USA. Karenk@uic.edu
Karen
K
Kavanaugh
V Ann
VA
Andreoni
Diana J
DJ
Wilkie
Sandra
S
Burgener
Mary Beth Tank
MB
Buschmann
Gloria
G
Henderson
Yi-Fang Yvonne
YF
Hsiung
Zhongsheng
Z
Zhao
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002641:Chicago; D003479:Curriculum; D003643:Death; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010166:Palliative Care; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011588:Psychology, Educational; D013795:Thanatology