NR 535 Week 3 Discussion: Collaboration Cafe

NR 535 Week 3 Discussion: Collaboration Cafe Hello PROFESSOR and Class! This week's lesson content and Collaboration Café is all about virtual learning environments. Virtual learning environmen ts are useful resources for nursing practice. According to Gracas and Birelo (2016), VLEs support a teaching and learning environment. They allow nurses to experience without doing any experimentation on humans. They provide the opportunity to engage with technology to allow for flexibility and accessibility to continue to learn (Gracas & Birelo, 2016). VLEs offer an exclusive way to learn and practice that benefit nursing practice, healthcare systems, and patients (Gracas & Birelo, 2016). Being part of the nurse educator track, I understand how using interactive programs to better understand the material can be beneficial and essential to augment a curriculum. Poulton et al. (2016) found supportive evidence that using a web-based interactive case study improved midterm grades over traditional Show Less