Includes bibliographical references and index.

This award-winning text (a Doody's core title), now in its third edition, integrates new, successful, digital teaching strategies with current distance education practices. Extensive revisions, eight new chapters, and an innovative interactive format facilitate the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of distance curriculum in undergraduate and graduate programs. New content promotes the goals of learning in context, developing clinical reasoning, teaching ethical comportment, teaching writing skills, evaluating the role of distance education, using wireless and mobile computing, a.

Print version record.

Foreword / Jeanne M. Novotny -- Educating nurses : the call for transformation of nursing education / Marilyn M. Lombardi, Mary Sutphen, and Lisa Day -- An overview of distance education and online courses / Karen H. Frith -- Faculty preparation for teaching online / Arlene E. Johnson and Nancy K. Meehan -- Exemplars of faculty preparation / Deborah J. Clark -- Supporting learner success / Susan Alexander and Haley Hoy -- Exemplars of student support / Deborah J. Clark -- Using learning objects to enhance distance education / Jeanne P. Sewell -- Using simulations to enhance clinical reasoning and judgment / Pamela R. Jeffries [and others] -- Designing online learning activities / Deborah J. Clark -- Enhancing writing in online education / Marilyn H. Oermann -- Quality monitoring and accreditation in nursing distance education programs / Diane M. Billings [and others] -- "There's an app for that!" : wireless and mobile computing in distance education / Jeanne P. Sewell.

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