The CoVis learning material is a learning repository of recent literature about COVID-19. The site is easily accessible using Firefox or Chrome browsers and individuals with basic computer skills can navigate without difficulty. Learners in the college or graduate level would be appropriate audiences. The knowledge map would be most usable by individual learners when given a homework assignment or when writing a paper or discussion in an online course. The sources of information from the learning tool could be incorporated into a lecture or as evidence when designing patient and staff education by a nurse educator.
Type of Material:
Learning Object Repository
Recommended Uses:
Individual reading
Homework
Lecture
This would be helpful for nurse educators at a healthcare facility to reinforce messages to staff about COVID-19 (e.g., vaccines, treatments, etc.)
Technical Requirements:
Internet access and web browser
Used Chrome to access this repository
Also used firefox browser with difficulty
Identify Major Learning Goals:
After completion of this resource, engaged learners will
Access articles on COVID-19 epidemiology, diagnostics, vaccines, viral biology, host biology, immunity, and therapeutics.
Explore research articles and build on their COVID-19 knowledge.
Target Student Population:
Graduate School
Professional
The terminology would require that someone be in the science or healthcare professions
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
The user needs a background in biology, research, science, or health.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The articles are peer reviewed and appear to be valid/accurate/and reliable.
This is evolving information about COVID-19.
The articles are recent and continually being added.
Only open access articles are included.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Each article facilitates learning.
The more articles read, the more understanding a learner would have.
The repository is for journal-type of articles and is not interactive.
The uses are very versatile depending on the type of graduate research a learner was doing.
Concerns:
The concept map would be improved with adding learning objectives.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The articles are arranged under the categories epidemiology, diagnostics, vaccines, viral biology, host biology, immunity, and therapeutics.
The software works well to open each article.
The knowledge map and website is straightforward and easy to navigate.
There is also a search bar.
There are no major bugs.
Concerns:
An improvement would be basic navigational instructions
Creative Commons:
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