Take Research Design Online!
NU603.02, Research Design, focuses on making students into educated consumers and producers of scientific research. It is the latest course offered in a distance-learning format at Jefferson, which means that Jefferson can now offer this course to anyone throughout the world with Internet access.
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Course Description: NU603.02 Research Design
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Emphasizes the acquisition of methods and techniques for extending the scientific base of knowledge for advanced nursing and occupational therapy practices. Focuses on research studies that are drawn from an interdisciplinary health perspective. Examines research designs and related analytic techniques in terms of their appropriateness for addressing various research problems in each of the health professions. (Cross listed with Occupational Therapy 603 and Physical Therapy 603.
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Students and faculty access all of the teaching and learning processes for this course through the web site. Lectures are available online, with interactive screens that allow the student to periodically check whether he or she understood the material presented. Discussions with classmates and the professor are facilitated by e-mail and listservs (which distribute email sent to them to the whole class for discussion.)
Even the research report is constructed online. As the students attend online lectures, they learn the information that enables them to construct each chapter of their research reports. The website then allows each student to submit a portion of his or her paper for review, and allows the instructor to review the chapters and sections of the research report of each student and make comments and suggestions for improvement on the page below the student's work.
Todd Ohl, Instructional Design Specialist for Education Services, worked with the faculty of the College of Health Professionals (CHP) to design an interactive learning environment for NU 603. Strong emphasis was placed on making the lectures more interactive, and less of an online textbook. These lectures were created from scripts provided by several content experts at Jefferson who possessed a strong knowledge of their topic areas. Michelle Cohen, Ph.D. served as the content expert for half of the lectures, with a focus on quantitative research designs and the scientific process. Kevin Lyons, Ph.D., contributed lectures on research ethics, hypotheses, and quantitative analysis of data. Last, but not least, Suzanne Langner, Ph.D., served as the content expert for the sections on qualitative research and will also serve as the online course faculty for the fall 2000 semester.
The College of Health Professionals continues with its plans of putting its graduate programs online. Look for NU 604, Research Seminar, and NU 605, Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse, to make their distance learning debuts soon.
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