ONLINE NURSING PROGRAMS AT EXCELSIOR COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX AND WALDEN UNIVERSITY and WALDEN UNIVERSITY'S DVD PRODUCTION SERVICES

THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE NURSING PROGRAMS AT EXCELSIOR COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX AND WALDEN UNIVERSITY
In this issue of Educational Pathways we focused, in a general sense, on how three schools of nursing built and expanded their online degree offerings, and on what kind of teaching and learning approaches they have implemented. We looked at three private institutions offering nursing programs at a distance: Excelsior College, University of Phoenix and Walden University. Phoenix and Walden are for-profit institutions. Excelsior is a non-profit institution. We did not get into the management of the face-to-face clinical and practicum requirements that are obviously important parts of nursing degree programs. Nor did we talk much about the many student services that accompany such programs. But, suffice it to say, all three of these institutions have very strong infrastructures for program management and production on all these levels. MORE

THE ELEMENTS OF WALDEN UNIVERSITY'S DVD PRODUCTION SERVICES
We talked with Bryan Polivak, divisional vice president and chief learning officer for Laureate Online, to get a sense about how video for DVDs is produced for Walden University's MS Degree in Nursing program. Polivka has been a distance educator for more than 20 years. He is responsible for learning architecture and technologies used in e-learning platforms, and he has created tens of thousands of hours of distance education during his career. MORE