Document Type
Article
Publication Date
July 2000
Abstract
An online epidemiology course was developed, implemented, and evaluated for graduate nursing students through the collaborative efforts of nursing faculty and information, education, and instructional design staff of the library at a health sciences university. This epidemiology course is a core curriculum course for graduate nursing students. The course was piloted with 14 students (one student in Romania); the initial online offering ran concurrently with a traditional classroom section. Extensive evaluation data were collected and analyzed to compare the effectiveness of the classroom and distance-learning formats. Areas of evaluation included objective measures, such as midterm and final examination scores and content analysis comparisons, as well as subjective ratings by the students of time commitments, course objectives, technical aspects of the web-based course, areas of satisfaction or dissatisfaction, and self-confidence regarding epidemiology and computer skills. Recommendations for course development, implementation, and evaluation for similar distance-learning courses will be included.
Recommended Citation
Rose, Molly A.; Frisby, Anthony J.; Hamlin, Michael D.; and Jones, Susan S., "Evaluations of the effectiveness of a web-based graduate epidemiology course" (2000). College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations. Paper 1.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/nursfp/1
Comments
This article has been peer-reviewed. It was originally published in Computers in Nursing, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 162-167. Copyright is retained by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Inc.