Online Scholarly Discourse: Lessons Learned for Continuing and Nurse Educators

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  • Lorraine Carter
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This article describes a collaborative three-year research project that focused on nurses’ experiences of a learning environment as they participated in an Internet-based cardiac nursing program. In addition to gathering data about the general appropriateness of the learning environment in a specialty content area, the study examined the environment’s facilitation of online scholarly discourse about cardiac nursing. Scholarly discourse is characterized by evolution over time of communication by and among learners, inclusion of references to relevant nursing literature, and the practice of writing conventions appropriate to the discipline. Guided by professorial and other learner supports, it is the foundation of theory-guided, evidenceRÉSUMÉ Pendant trois ans, ce projet de recherche coopératif s’est concentré sur les expériences des infirmières en environnement d’apprentissage pendant qu’elles participaient au programme de soins infirmiers cardiaques à l’Internet. Tout en rassemblant des données sur la pertinence de l’environnement d’apprentissage dans un domaine de contenu spécialisé, l’étude a aussi fait l’examen de la facilitation du discours académique en ligne sur les soins infirmiers cardiaques. Le discours académique est caractérisé par une communication élaborée à la longue, par et parmi les apprenants, l’inclusion de références à la littérature pertinente en soins infirmiers, et une utilisation des conventions relatives à l’écriture appropriée à la

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تاریخ انتشار 2003