http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17:06 PDT Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17:06 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=347384 This learning resource, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, provides three nursing case studies. According to the web site the "Culturally Competent Nursing Modules (CCNMs) are a case-based curriculum designed to help nurses better meet the cultural and linguistic needs of an increasingly diverse patient population. The Office of Minority Health (OMH) is supporting the development of these modules as part of their mission to 'improve the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of effective health policies and programs that help to eliminate disparities in health.'" The three courses are: (1) Course I: Delivering Culturally Competent Nursing Care; (2) Using Language Access Service; and (3) Supporting Advocacy for Cultually Competent Health Care Organizations. The learning modulces they provide content and CEUs and they integrate video clips and examples of different cultural scenarios, fast facts about research and stats related, cultural issues, and CLAS acts which refers students to the national CLAS document on Cultural and Linguistic Standards/ Office of Minority Health. The learning resource is free; however the user must create and login and password in order to use the resource. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78477 This is a great site where users will examine major evolutionary concepts, explore teaching methodologies, and address obstacles to teaching evolution.  There are many modules for this site, including topics such as the nature of science, Darwin's theory, human evolution, misconceptions about evolution, and teaching evolution. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80710 To address the critical teacher shortage in math and science, the Teaching and Learning Interchange grant produced three products: two series of online video case studies of accomplished teaching and a resource guide explaining the techniques, ideas for engaging students, assessing learning progress, creating and maintaining a classroom conducive to learning, along with strategies for working with English Learners and Special needs students. Originally conceived for use with pre-service and intern teachers, the cases and resources have been recommended by field reviewers for use at all stages of the teacher professional continuum.The Pedagogy in Practice: Science video case studies document lessons from general science, biology and chemistry; the Pedagogy in Practice: Math video cases cover 8th grade algebra, high school algebra and geometry. Each case is supported by relevant artifacts that develop real contexts for the learning and includes teaching cues and transcripts of classroom dialog. National Board certified and Exploratorium Master teachers deconstruct their own teaching practices and share how they break subject matter standards into mind-sized learning units, then demonstrate those same learning units in action. Teacher reflections on assessment, along with links to resouces found in the Strategies in Practice Resource Guide, provide support for classroom management, lesson planning and essential strategies that describe how to adapt the instructional pedagogy modeled in the videos. All lessons are aligned simultaneously to the California standards for teaching and science subject matter content. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79890 A lesson on whale evolution based on DNA, geological, paleontological, physiological and morphological evidence. Students will experience the historical discovery of fossils which increasingly link whales to earlier land-dwelling mammals. This experience reveals how scientists can make predictions about past events, based on the theory and evidence that whales evolved. Such predictions suggest the age and location of sediments where fossils of early whales would most likely be found, and even their traits. This lesson also provides confirmation, with multiple independent lines of evidence, that there IS a series of intermediate forms, showing gradual accumulation of changes, linking certain terrestrial mammal groups with modern whales. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80810 This web site has many different case study activities covering various subjects. The case studies are designed to encourage students to use problem-based learning to solve problems that are relevant and applicable to the real world. Answer keys are available to authorized instructors. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78489 Easy-to-use site with 18 autopsy cases created as part of a medical informatics module. Each case provides H&P, links to pertinent test/lab results, brief report of patient's care until death, and interactive cadaver which organizes color photographs of body tissues/organs and a brief synopsis of results by body system. Each case also allows the user to select from possible causes of death and provides feedback on incorrect/correct choices. The site also contains case-relevant A&P mini-tutorials by body system. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83568 Students follow the growth of the Kruger National Park elephant population from 1903-1996. While following the history of the population, students calculate values using the logistic equation. Students will complete a case study in which they: 1) learn the biological and sociopolitical history of the KNP elephants; 2) calculate dN/dt, N, and 1-(N/K) over time; 3) explain how assumptions of logistic growth affect the shape of the curve; and 4) evaluate how well the KNP population fits the logistic model. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=259605 Epiville is a learning tool developed specifically for Principles of Epidemiology, the core course in this discipline at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Epiville is a set of interactive web-based exercises created by faculty in the Department of Epidemiology and produced by the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning at Columbia University. The primary goal of Epiville is to provide an enhanced web-based learning environment so that students can most efficiently master the main principles of the course. Separate modules serve as weekly homework assignments. In these exercises, students assume the role of an intern at the Department of Health in the fictional city of Epiville where they investigate a series of emerging public health problems. The tools employed in Epiville-- instantaneous answers to multiple-choice questions, use of interactive maps and visuals, and open-ended questions for discussion in face-to-face seminar meetings-- are intended to improve learner's capacity to collect and analyze epidemiologic data and, ultimately, to carry out independent work in the field.The project currently consists of ten modules. The first module introduces learners to epidemiological thinking and evaluation of cause and effect. The following two modules on infectious disease epidemiology focus on an investigation of an epidemic of SARS. The next four exercises demonstrate how various other study designs can be used to search for the cause of an outbreak of a mysterious new disease, Susser Syndrome. Exercises on bias and confounding show how these threats to the validity of epidemologic research were tackled in a real-life study carried out by a member our faculty. The final module introduces the concepts of screening and prevention. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83576 Students look at speciation case studies. They are asked to think critically about evidence they collect to answer questions within the following contexts:Mosquito case: Does the evidence support separating one species into more than one species?Panther case: Does the evidence show that the FL panther is unique enough to conserve? (also useful for conservation lessons). Students will: 1) interpret real data on Anopheles quadrimaculatus species complex and the Florida panther, including morphological traits, haplotypes, population histories, ecology, molecular phylogenies, hybridization, and geographic distributions; 2) define species in real life situations; and 3) make a conservation decision based on concepts in species and speciation. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=344537 Hope in Action is an 18-minute video highlighting a research study that explores the role that hope plays for family caregivers of persons with dementia. The research was conducted by nursing professor Wendy Duggleby and sociologist Elizabeth Quinlan. It is the first study on the topic to use participatory theatre, a technique born out of the Brazilian critical pedagogy and liberation movements of the 1950s and 1960s. In the documentary film, family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease discuss what hope means to them and how participatory theatre fostered their hope. The film aims to increase greater public understanding about the challenges faced by caregivers, as well as showing how caregivers reconstitute hope in the context of their caregiving role. The video is the second produced through the College of Nursing's Living With Hope research program aimed at support family caregivers. The first film featured discussions of hope by people with advanced cancer and their families. The documentary was produced in partnership with the Alzheimer Society, the Saskatoon Council on Aging, and the U of S Saskatchewan Educational Media Access and Production unit. The research was funded by the Alzheimer Society and the University of Saskatchewan President's SSHRC Fund.