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An Emerging Role: The Nurse Content Curator
Author(s) -
Brooks Beth A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
nursing forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1744-6198
pISSN - 0029-6473
DOI - 10.1111/nuf.12095
Subject(s) - content (measure theory) , meaning (existential) , nurse educator , nursing , work (physics) , psychology , nurse education , phenomenon , medical education , computer science , medicine , epistemology , philosophy , mathematics , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , psychotherapist
A new phenomenon, the inverted or “flipped” classroom, assumes that students are no longer acquiring knowledge exclusively through textbooks or lectures. Instead, they are seeking out the vast amount of free information available to them online (the very essence of open source) to supplement learning gleaned in textbooks and lectures. With so much open‐source content available to nursing faculty, it benefits the faculty to use readily available, technologically advanced content. The nurse content curator supports nursing faculty in its use of such content. Even more importantly, the highly paid, time‐strapped faculty is not spending an inordinate amount of effort surfing for and evaluating content. The nurse content curator does that work, while the faculty uses its time more effectively to help students vet the truth, make meaning of the content, and learn to problem‐solve.Brooks