- Background – The Nursing Online CE program was initially developed to use ANGEL Groups as they were the only resources available to the planners at that time. The planners now have access to use ANGEL Groups which are advantageous for a number of reasons:
- Courses are not linked to any one person’s account
- There aren’t any quotas on the numbers of courses we could create
- The use of DEV spaces would make the process of course revisions more similar to typical WC courses
- WCLD would maintain more direct admin access to the courses, this would be especially useful for succession planning
- Courses provide a level of legitimacy that Groups do not have
- Goal – test the proper functioning, flow, and basic organization of a Nursing Online CE Course in ANGEL
- Survey
History/Experience- Main Components of Materials
- Nursing Portal/Marketing Site – point of first entry
- SOAR – registration engine
- FPS – account registration/user database
- ANGEL Course
- Welcome page
- Handouts
- Navigation info
- Presentation
- Support info
- AI
- Quiz
- Eval
- Certificate
- Completion
- Copyright & TEACH Act
- Survey attributes
Content- Organization
- Flow
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Support Comparison of the Group with the Course
I’m tempted to expand the pilot to include effectiveness of the design of this course. It would be a mistake to do that at this time given the scope, time frame, and initial goal of this pilot. It would be great to get more specific answers about how these courses compare to other forms of professional development that are available to nurses.