Technology in Education Websites Recommended by the SON Technology Committee
Assisted Learning for All: http://www.saddleback.edu/alfa/ Provides easy access to real-life nursing procedures and step by step directions with photos and videos.
Atomic Learning: https://www.atomiclearning.com Subscription based provider of 110+ software training tutorials. Can sample some for free.
Educause: Teaching and Learning http://www.educause.edu/focus-areas-and-initiatives/teaching-and-learning One section of the vast EDUCAUSE website focusing on using technology in education
Evolve Learning System: https://evolve.elsevier.com/staticPages/index.html Provides interactive learning experiences related to textbook readings and lessons.
FreeNurse Tutor: http://freenursetutor.com/ Create customized online learning activities for your courses.
Gapminder: https://www.gapminder.org/ “For a fact-based world view,” including statistics relating to health and healthcare
Gaumard Scientific: http://www.gaumardscientific.com/ Information newsletter, and more about simulation with Gaumard products.
HEAL: http://www.healcentral.org/ Health Education Assets Library: National Digital Library. Free, high quality, digital materials for health services education. Searchable by collection and subject.
Hot Potatoes: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ From Half-Baked Software, The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web
Illinois Nurse Aide Testing: http://www.nurseaidetesting.com/ Performance skills videos for evaluating Certified Nurse Aide training.
Kathy Schrock: http://www.kathyschrock.net Ideas, links, slide shows, etc. on education and teaching focused on technology issues and ideas.
Laerdol: Simulation User Network http://simulation.laerdal.com/ Includes meetings and conferences, downloads, products, tutorials, discussion forums and much more for simulation
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm Searchable by Health Sciences collection and keyword. Membership is free.
National League for Nursing – The Future of Nursing Education: Ten Trends to Watch: http://www.nln.org/nlnjournal/infotrends.htm Challenges and opportunities in nursing education.
NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2015-higher-education-edition/ This “is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This 12th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education.”
Nursing Zone.com: Study Tips: http://www.americanmobile.com/nursezone/“Whether you’re studying for exams, preparing for your first clinical rotation or seeking tools to simplify your workload and boost your comprehension, the Study Tips section of NurseZone offers helpful hints, study aids, and useful tools and references to help get you started.”
The Point: http://thepointeedition.lww.com/pt/re/thepoint/home.htm Provides interactive learning experiences related to textbook readings and lessons.
Puzzlemaker: Discovery Education http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/ Application that creates a variety of puzzle formats from your own word list for free. Useful for Blackboard and other online learning.
StudyBlue: https://www.studyblue.com/ Flashcards, review sheets, quizzes, study guides. Large collection of online study materials with user-generated digital notecards.
Study Stack: http://www.studystack.com/Nursing Free flashcards on nursing topics or create your own.
