title: Authentic Engagement in High-Enrollment Graduate Courses: Pathophysiology Consumers Become Content Creators.
abstract: The challenge to educate increasing numbers of nursing students at all levels in both online and in-class environments calls for innovative instructional strategies that may include technology-based assignments to help students apply knowledge to clinical situations. This article describes a case study assignment created for a graduate-level pathophysiology course that required students to create digitally enhanced patient stories. Nursing students enrolled in the online and in-class sections of the course worked together using commonly available learning technology tools to create content that bridged pathophysiology concepts and clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: Associate Professor (Dr McDaniel) and Manager of Instructional Services (Ms Tornwall), College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, Columbus.
authors.forename: Jodi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McDaniel
authors.forename: Joni
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tornwall
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D020375:Education, Distance; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018961:Educational Technology; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010336:Pathology / Q000193:education*; D010827:Physiology / Q000193:education*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*