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Accessible Learning: HTML eBooks | My Nursing Community

July Arp

The textbook is traditionally the core of many courses. To support students using assistive technology to access course materials, Pearson now publishes screen-readable “HTML eBook” versions of its mathematics and statistics textbooks. Formatted in HTML and MathML and compatible with JAWS and other Windows screen readers, HTML eBooks are national texts that offer

  • complete core content, including text and images, in single column presentation.
  • alternative text descriptions for all important figures and photos.
  • enhanced navigation support, including interactive table of contents, go-to-page functionality, and keyboard access.

For texts not yet in the HTML eBook format, we continue to provide PDFs of your textbook or eText, Student Solutions Manuals, Graphing Calculator Manuals, and other ancillaries, which can be used with such accessibility technologies as screen readers and Braille displays. You can also convert the PDF files into another format, such as a printed Braille book. Requests for alternative texts can be made online.

Rick Clinton is Publisher with Higher Education’s English, Mathematics, and Student Success (EMSS) team.  As Accessibility Advocate and Leader (AAL) for the group, he develops and coordinates accessibility strategy and programs with editorial, technology, and legal teams, as well as with instructors, disabilities services staff, accessibility advocates, and assistive device developers, to ensure that our products are as accessible as possible to all students. Prior to joining Pearson, Rick was President and co-founder of Intellipro, Inc., the creator of the MathXL/MyMathLab platform.

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Giftcard Winners Announced for Survey Respondents

July Arp

  • Phoenix Harvey, Pearson Education
  • January 9, 2013

Thank you so much to those who responded to the pre-event survey for Pearson’s Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education (FINE). We are so excited to be able to bring together nurse educators around the nation to dialogue and learn about some of the most interesting innovations in nursing education. Thanks to your feedback we were able to tailor each area’s sessions around those topics that were of the most interest to nursing instructors in the region.

Please become a member of MyNursingCommunity for more information on contests, hot topic webinars and product updates – and to stay tuned for more information on the upcoming 2013 FINEs!

Congratulations to the following winners of the Starbuck’s gift cards!

Columbus, OH Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education:

  • Jonda Hennosy – Hocking University
  • Kathy Holloway – Franklin University
  • Terri Hood-Brown – Ohio University, Athens Campus
  • Kathy Garza – Hocking College
  • Kelly Gray – Malone University
  • Stephanie Reagan – Malone University
  • Kim Resanovich – Ohio University
  • Diane Sheets – Ohio State University
  • Theresa Wharton – Ohio University
  • Lora Wyss – Malone University

Dallas/Ft.Worth Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education:

  • Marinda Allender – Texas Christian University
  • Wendy Barr – UT-Arlington
  • Marcy Beck – Midwestern State University
  • Dennis Cheek – Texas Christian University
  • Louise Comer – Texas Christian University
  • Mary Jo Distel – Midwestern State University
  • Nancy Kupper – Tarrant County College
  • Tom Parmelee – University of Texas – Arlington
  • Marilyn Payne – Tarrant County College
  • Mary Wiehard

North Carolina Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education:

  • Barbara Britton – Fayetteville Tech CC
  • Sarah d’Empaire – Edgecombe CC
  • Judy Flowers – Catawba Valley CC
  • Laura Gantt – Eastern Carolina University
  • Erica Jastrow – Vance Granville CC
  • Sharon Jimison – Catawba Valley CC
  • Barbara Knopp – Edgecombe CC
  • Marilyn Morgan – Johnston CC
  • Brenda Stepp – Catawba Valley CC
  • Marie Thomas – Forsyth Tech CC

Orlando Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education:

  • Deborah Christeleit – Bethune-Cookman University
  • Toni Couzenza – Daytona State College
  • Kelly Duffy – Daytona State College
  • Patty Hurley – Brevard Community College
  • Patsy Love – Bethune-Cookman University
  • Marion Marino-Meyash – Concorde Career College
  • Doris Parrish – South University
  • Willie Mae Session – Bethune-Cookman University
  • Charlene Whiddon – Tallahassee Community College
  • Patti Yorty – Seminole State College

Philadelphia-area Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education:

  • Patricia Becker – Widener University
  • Virginia Clarke – Luzerne County CC
  • Lisa Dunn – Mercer County CC
  • Tresa Dusaj – Monmouth University
  • Pat Fonder – Ramapo College
  • V. Alexandra Hascup – Kean University
  • Laura Jannone – Monmouth College
  • Karen Koziol – Mercy College
  • Deborah Mandel – Westchester University
  • Tracy Perron – Kean University

Seattle-area Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education:

  • Marcelle Berg – South Puget Sound CC
  • Amy Brase – Chemeketa CC
  • Rob Deloye – Tacoma CC
  • Marjorie Dobratz – University of Washington – Tacoma
  • Linda Fleshman – Mt. Hood CC
  • Karen Joiner – Lower Columbia College
  • Rita Kittoe – University of Alaska – Anchorage
  • Elaine Mohn-Brown – Chemeketa CC
  • Jolene Stiles – South Puget Sound CC
  • Annette Ward – Lower Columbia College

Bay Area  Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education:

  • Joan Bard – Samuel Merritt University
  • James Chin – Mission College
  • Rene Clymer-Englehart – Samuel Merritt University
  • Valerie Dzubur – Samuel Merritt University
  • Lina Gage-Kelly – Samuel Merritt University
  • Garry Johnson – Samuel Merritt University
  • Lindsay McCrea – Cal State – East Bay
  • Laurie Rosa – Samuel Merritt University
  • Elizabeth Sibson-Tuan – Samuel Merritt University
  • Karen Wolf – Samuel Merritt University

St Louis Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education:

  • Greg Alexander – University of Missouri
  • Kathleen Ellis – University of Missouri
  • Katherine Hufker – Goldfarb College of Nursing
  • Becky Luebbert – Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
  • Karen Mayes – St. Louis Community College
  • Gail Rea – Goldfarb College of Nursing
  • Chris Seckman – Goldfarb College of Nursing
  • Ann Shelton – Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
  • Bonnie Stegman – Maryville University
  • Bobbie Weber – Goldfarb College of Nursing

Winners will receive their gift cards via e-mail.

Get Recognized for your Exemplary BlackBoard Course with the Catalyst Awards

July Arp

  • The Pearson Team
  • January 23, 2013

The BlackBoard Team is pleased to announce that the 2013 Blackboard Catalyst Awards are now open for submissions! Take advantage of a wonderful professional development opportunity and submit your course to the 2013 Blackboard Exemplary Course Program (ECP).  The Blackboard Exemplary Course Program honors those course creators whose courses demonstrate best practices in four major areas: Course Design, Interaction & Collaboration, Assessment and Learner Support.

A group of voluntary course reviewers, along with the ECP Directors, will use the Exemplary Course Rubric to evaluate submitted courses and provide valuable feedback to all participants. This feedback will give you insight on how to better engage with your students and elevate your teaching experiences. Past participants have reported that the experiences of evaluating their courses using the rubric improved their courses and made them stronger course designers.

By submitting your course, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Reflect on your own course design through a self-evaluation of your course and gain new perspective and insights
  • Receive detailed feedback on your own course development including best practices and areas for improvement
  • Apply lessons learned from the Exemplary Course Rubric to your own courses or those you are helping to develop
  • Gain professional development experience and recognition for your accomplishments and participation

Don’t want to submit a course? Consider becoming a volunteer course reviewer to:

  • Explore in-depth a variety of different online courses and get ideas and inspiration for your own online courses
  • Apply lessons learned from the Exemplary Course Rubric to your own courses or those you are helping to develop
  • Share your knowledge and experience with others by providing feedback on their course designs

If you have any questions about the program, please send an email to [email protected]. For information on the other Catalyst Awards categories, please visit blackboard.com/catalyst.

Webinar: Author Kathleen Perrin on Palliative Care

July Arp

There are some nurses who firmly believe that all patients’ care should have an element of palliative care, a focus on the patients’ and families’ comfort, concerns, and needs. Clearly as end-of-life approaches, palliative care gains in importance over curative care. This webinar hosted by author Kathy Perrin will discuss what palliative care involves and will describe triggers for a palliative care consult in critically ill patients. Evidence-based ways to initiate and continue the discussion of limitation of care, including Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR), will be highlighted. Finally, best practices for care of the dying patient in the critical care environment will be reviewed.

Please join us on Tuesday, July 24 at 1:00 PM EDT to discuss this topic.

Kathleen Perrin is a professor of nursing at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she teaches critical care nursing, professional nursing, ethics, and understanding suffering. In recognition of her teaching ability, she was awarded the Saint Anselm College AAUP Excellence in Faculty Accomplishment Award.  She has been a practicing critical care nurse for over 30 years and a member of the American Association of Critical Care (AACN) Nurses for nearly as long. She has published and presented in the areas of critical care nursing, nursing ethics, nursing history, suffering experienced by patients as well as health care providers, and conflict among members of the health care team. Check out her recent publication, Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing, 2e, publishing on July 30!

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New Neighborhood Faculty Users: Sign Up for Summer Training!

July Arp

Are you a new faculty user of the Neighborhood? Need to know how to start integrating the Neighborhood characters into your course activities? Plan on attending one of our live webinar training sessions!

We’ll provide an overview to the program, show program navigation, and give some detailed ideas on how to integrate the Neighborhood program into your school’s program. If you are a new instructor you can sign up for a training webinar on your own and participate in the training with your own computer and phone. Or, you can participate in the training together as a group in a room with a projected computer screen and a speaker phone.

The summer 2012 training schedule for new Neighborhood adopters has been posted on http://www.pearsonneighborhood.com/ under the Training tab. There are many training sessions offered this summer on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Here is a list, below, of the available dates and times – please note that the times listed are East Coast time (EDT), so make the time adjustment for where you live. Click here to go to the Training page on the website, and scroll down to the Live Online Training section to sign up!

 

Webinars

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Happy National Nurses’ Week! Register and Attend our Webinars for a Chance to Win!

July Arp

Happy National Nurses’ Week!

We at Pearson Nursing want you to know how much we appreciate your commitment to developing the next generation of nurses. So, in honor of National Nurses’ Week, we are hosting short, interactive, 45-minute webinars covering key learning and instructional resources designed to make your job easier.

And, to show how much we appreciate you, we are awarding online gift cards to the first 25 nurse educators who register and attend each of the webinars below. That’s right… we’re gifting a total of 100 gift cards to attendees!

As a special bonus, any instructor who attends these webinars during National Nurses’ Week will automatically be entered to win an iPod Touch® loaded with Pearson Nursing digital textbooks and mobile apps.

CLICK HERE to register for any of the learning resource webinars below that we will be holding this week:

Webinar #1: Concept-based Learning Resources

Join this webinar to see how Pearson Nursing’s concept-based solutions are specifically designed for more effective teaching and learning in concept-based curricula. From our new Digital Library and Class Master applications to our custom media capabilities, you’ll be amazed at the concept-based resources available to you and your students.

Webinar #2: Premium Instructor Resources

See how Pearson Nursing’s premium educator resources can help you teach beyond boundaries!

  • Class Preparation Resources – a new, searchable database of animations, videos and images that make it easy for you to find the perfect assets to enliven your lecture materials
  • Animated Lectures Series – animated mini-lectures with case activities that help make complicated concepts interesting and easier to understand
  • Standards Correlations Documents – mapping of our new titles to 8 key nursing educational and professional standards including QSEN, IOM and the 2010 NCLEX Test Blueprint
  • Online Testing – create and administer exams with even more alternate item format questions like hot spot, graphic and media questions

Webinar #3: Readypoint Live Review for NCLEX

Join this webinar to see how Readypoint Live Review provides personalized, evidence-based and complete Live Review for your students. Our Director of Live Review, Judy Hyland, RN, MSN, will discuss current research on best practices to improve your students’ chance of success on the NCLEX.

Webinar #4: The NEW MyNursingLab experience

Find out how MyNursingLab’s personalized study plan helps students synthesize the vast amounts of information with its one-of-a-kind Review-Remember-Apply guided learning path that helps students move beyond memorization to true understanding through application. With its animations, videos, interactive exercises and thousands of NCLEX-style questions and available eText pages learning is contextualized for students in a purposeful way based on each student’s learning needs.

To register for any of the learning resource webinars below that we will be holding during National Nurses’ Week, please CLICK HERE.

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Do Your Students Struggle with Time Management and Procrastination?

July Arp

Register for this free webinar to explore self-regulatory strategies for successful academic achievement!

“Time Management, Motivation, and the Psychology of Procrastination: Understanding and Teaching Self-Regulatory Behaviors” is presented by Laurie L. Hazard, Ed.D., Director, The Academic Center for Excellence and the Writing Center, Bryant University, RI.

Date: Monday, March 12, 2012

Time: 12:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)

About this webinar:

Researchers argue that self-regulatory behavior is at the heart of being successful in higher education. Yet, undergraduate students are entering post-secondary institutions without the behavior management skills to achieve academically. This webinar will focus on the primary self-regulatory strategies necessary for successful academic achievement. Efficient time management practices, self-motivation, and anti-procrastination strategies will be explored.

To register for this Webinar:

1.  Click here.

2. Register for the meeting.

Once the host approves your request, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with instructions for joining the meeting.

To view in other time zones or languages, please click here.

Webinars

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Fort Lauderdale Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education

July Arp

Thank you so much for participating in our Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education in Ft. Lauderdale on Friday, March 23. As always, it was a total pleasure to see you!

Below you will find the PPT slide deck for the session on effectively implementing an EHR into your program, a PDF from the session on considering a concept-based curriculum, and a PPT slide deck of the simulation standards from the INACSL Board of Directors. For more information on concept-based resources (like the curriculum grid), please stay tuned on this community site for updates.

  • PPT on implementing an EHR
  • PDF on considering a concept-based curriculum
  • PPT of Simulation Standards

And please don’t forget to fill out your post-event survey in order to have your attendance certificate generated and CEUs granted: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KQBK8ZJ

Best,

Phoenix

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Boston Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education

July Arp

Thank you so much for participating in our Forum for Innovations in Nursing Education in Boston on Friday, April 27 at the Pearson Education office. As always, it was a total pleasure to see you – and thank you for making it such a fun and informative day!

Attached here you will find the slide deck for the sessions on NCLEX item writing session, and here is the deck on The Neighborhood. Please stay tuned for more information on events, The Neighborhood and other workshops!

Remember: please don’t forget to fill out your post-event survey in order to have your attendance certificate generated and CEUs granted: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/65VRV62

Best,

Debi

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View Presentations from Pearson’s Hot Topics in Nursing Education Webinar Series

July Arp

Pearson’s “Hot Topics in Nursing Education” webinar series that covers key topics of interest in the nursing education community. The “Hot Topics in Nursing Education” webinars provide up-to-the-minute access to subject-matter experts through engaging one-hour webinars. Presentation slides from this series are now available for download below.

  • Considering a Concept-Based Curriculum – Sue Ellen Miller, MSN, RN, CNE, Lead Instructor – Paul M. Wiles School of Nursing, Forsyth Technical Community College
    considering a concept-based curriculum
  • Effective Remediation Practices – Brenda Boyce, RN, EdD, Executive Manager of Assessment and Remediation, Readypoint Nursing
    Effective Remediation Practices
  • Engaging Adult Learners in an RN to BSN Online Program – Marcy Caplin, MSN, RN – Kent State University
    Engaging Adult Learners in Online RN to BSN Programs
  • Incorporating NCLEX 2013 Test Plan Changes – Bonita Longo, RN, MSN
    Incorporating NCLEX 2013 Test Plan Changes
  • Nursing Education and Practice and the Institute of Medicine Healthcare Professions Competencies – Anita Finkelman, MSN, RN, Visiting Faculty – Bouvé College of Health Sciences, School of Nursing
    IOM Competencies and Your Curriculum
  • NovEx: Transforming Nursing Education by Integrating Classroom and Clinical Learning – Thomas (Tom) S. Ahrens, RN, PhD, CCNS, FAAN, Patricia Benner, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Patricia (Pat) Hooper Kyriakidis, RN, PhD
    NovEx Transforming Nursing Education By Integrating
  • Quality and Safety in Nursing: Using quality as a tool to improve practice outcomes – Kim Amer, PhD, RN, Associate Professor – School of Nursing, DePaul University, Author of Quality and Safety for Transformational Nursing Core Competencies
    QSEN Competencies and Your Curriculum
  • Selecting and Implementing an Academic EHR – Phyllis Murray, RN, MSN, MAEd, Healthcare Executive
    Selecting and an Implementing and EHR Learning System

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