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Monday, June 20, 2005

Online Courses For Nurses Open To All

I am still surprised when I see my web server logs at how many people access our online courses for nurses. According to the IP addresses our visitors come from all over the world.

The courses were developed for university nursing students. We taught them to mainly on-campus students and they were supplemented with face-to-face tutorials, clinical experience placements and all the additional resources readily available in an on-campus setting, like library and laboratory facilities.

They were very well received by the students and we found them to be quite valuable as teaching resources. When we moved on from our tenured academic careers we decided to make the online part of the course materials available on the web. They were discovered by search engines and became quite popular.

Then we had a period where we shut down our server for well over a year, which the search engines don't like really, so naturally we disappeared from view. However, when we did make them available again, to our surprise they were rediscovered fairly quickly and now they get a steady stream of visitors.

As resources, though naturally a little dated in some respects, they are still quite useful. Anyone interested in them, nurse or not, is most welcome to use them online from our server for free. We also have fresh, up-to-date health education materials related to nutrition on our new site. You can find these sites through the following links.
Take a look and tell anyone who may find them useful where to find them.

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