Denise Cauble

A Synchronous Group Assignment using Blackboard Collaborate in an Online Undergraduate Nursing Research Course

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Denise Cauble PhD, RN, CWOCN

Assistant Professor, Clinical Nursing College of Nursing and Health Innovation, UT Arlington

Denise Cauble teaches undergraduate Nursing Research and Community Health both on campus and online in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Through participation in the Professional Learning Community (PLC) this year, she plans to integrate synchronous learning strategies to enhance student engagement in her online courses. Her research interests are nursing education, geriatrics, and genomics. She recently completed her dissertation on examining factors and strategies that influence and enhance persistence in nursing students. In 2009, she was a Fellow in the Summer Genetics Institute (National Institute of Nursing Research). She also was Fellow in the FLAG Program (Faculty Learning About Geriatrics) at the University of Minnesota in 2012.

Dr. Cauble is a practicing registered nurse of 33 years in various clinical settings, most recently, home health, hospice, and palliative care and is a Certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse.

Peggy Semingson

Denise

Thanks for sharing! I do a similar task with my online Master’s level students where they explore the UTA library databases. You provided a wealth of resources and information to your students within the synchronous session. My students like the chat feature, too, and don’t tend to use audio/video either. I love that you are co-producing this with a colleague. I think it’s a great idea. Does it provide a “common ground” for the group? I may try short videos within the session to foster dialogue, thinking, etc. The polling is a good idea. I have had great success with polling. The idea of increasing the number of examples is good! Students like examples. I have heard every 5-7 minutes with polls, posing question to students, etc. is ideal for pacing those throughout.

Question: Do you find there’s an advantage to watching the video within the videoconference as opposed to watching it on their own?

Good job!

-Peggy
- Denise Cauble
  
  Hi Peggy! Thanks for your valuable feedback as always! I wanted all the students to watch the video together as I have this in the course now and few view. It has a lot of great info about finding an article and may spark some questions.
  Thanks! Denise
Pat Thomas

Thanks, Denise! We could use this as a refresher for the graduate nursing students who have been out of school a long time
- Denise Cauble
  
  Hi Pat! I think that this could easily be made into an asynchronous activity for this group and posted in the resources.
- Peggy Semingson
  
  Hi Pat! We miss you! 🙂
  - Pat Thomas
    
    Miss you guys too! It’s great to get to see what everyone is doing in this format
Karabi

Denise - This is such a great way to disseminate information as well as have student work “hands-on” in locating articles. You seem to have addressed a basic issue of locating relevant articles (literature search) in a very interactive manner - without spoon-feeding by posting these articles; but actually teaching students how to find them. Our Library is a great resource, but students often don’t know or rather don’t try to navigate it. I will use this in my course too! Also, my students also prefer the Chat feature over the audio/ video - wonder why? I keep repeating the questions posted on Chat so that it would get recorded 🙂 Thank you!
- Denise Cauble
  
  Karabi, My groups are usually too large to use the audio in the online courses so have to use the CHAT feature. It seems that the same people do most of the chatting. I have not called on students to increase interaction yet. It is helpful to have a colleague man the chatboard in the large groups.
  The library has awesome resources! The nursing librarian even comes and has a “pop up librarian” time with my students in the hall outside of the classroom to help the students.
  Let me know if you do try this assignment!
- Jiyoon Yoon
  
  Karabi, I agree with you. Yes, this is a great way to use the library resources with students!!! I will use the research study method~
Kiva Harper

This is amazing. I met a nursing professor at the TPT conference who was asking for feedback regarding this exact issue.This is amazing!
Regina Urban

Denise,

This is great! It benefits those who already have a good chance of successfully completing their search for an article, and is so helpful for those who are “at risk” for not being successful. I think this was a great choice for your project because finding the article is so high-stakes for their next assignment in the course.

Additionally, I like your presentation with your picture in the bottom corner. This would be helpful to use with online students. Thanks for sharing your project with us. ~ Regina
- Denise Cauble
  
  We will need to look at how we can integrate into the RN-BSN Research courses as well!
Jenny Roye

Great job Denise. As Pat says, this would be a great refresher