CD/DVD: Physical Assessment of the Normal Newborn
Jane Kirkpatrick, Nursing
The project goal was to develop a CD/DVD that provides an interactive video on newborn assessment for Nursing 313:
Nursing of Childbearing Families Clinic and for commercial distribution.
Instructional goals
- Encourage active learning with a portable interactive learning tool
- Simulate an actual physical assessment session
- Avoid spending clinical rounds time on teaching basics
Project Rationale
Professor Kirkpatrick requested IDC’s help in repurposing a learning resource: a series of videos used in Nursing 313 on the physical assessment of newborns. Although students were supposed to learn the basics of assessment from theses videos before going on clinical rounds, in fact they had not mastered the material, so that much of the time spent on rounds was used to teach material the students should already have learned. The new learning resource would incorporate more active learning and an assessment component, which would reinforce the material to be learned and so allow time in clinical rounds to be spent more productively.Implementation
Elizabeth Harris worked with Jane Kirkpatrick through the instructional design process to create two modes of learning: a Mastery mode, without assessment, and a Tutorial mode, which included assessment in the form of self-tests throughout. The material to be mastered was chunked and assessments were created for self-testing. The instructional design team created HTML pages to host the materials and developed the assessments using Flash. IDC developers created a CD of the resource for use in the class, and packaged it with a DVD including the original videotaped material. This package will be sold to nursing schools and universities.Technologies Used
Macromedia FlashImpact on Student Learning
Transforming a series of videos into a CD/DVD format provided students with a more portable and accessible learning tool. Moreover, an interactive self-testing component allowed students to master material at their own pace and more thoroughly than they could through passive video viewing.
IDC Staff Contact: Elizabeth Harris