Fourth Quarter Performance Monitoring Support














The fourth quarter performance monitoring report was shared with over 230 individuals across the country and Canada who registered on the Open RN webpage for additional information. 

Highlights of Open RN grant activities from the past quarter include:
  • The Peer Review process for the Nursing Pharmacology OER textbook is concluding.  Over 40 peer reviewers from across the country volunteered to be a part of the review process and registered on the Open RN website.  Reviewers completed a rubric and also had the option to add comments within the electronic version of the textbook using Hypothes.is.    The textbook is also currently being piloted in nursing courses in five WTCS colleges, and a survey was provided to faculty and survey to complete. All comments will be reviewed, and revisions will be made to the Nursing Pharmacology textbook, before the first edition is published in Pressbooks by June 1, 2020.  At that time, the textbook will also be uploaded to LibreTexts for easy “remixing” by nursing faculty across the country to align with their curriculum.

  • The development of the Nursing Fundamentals and Nursing Skills OER textbooks has begun.  Workgroups composed of WTCS nursing faculty members are developing chapters based on WTCS State Nursing Curriculum course competencies, and collaboratively reviewing each chapter as it is developed using Google docs.  It is anticipated that these two Nursing OER textbooks will be ready for formal peer review and pilot testing in Spring 2021, and the first editions will be published in Pressbooks by June 2021.

  • The Open RN project is collaborating with Madison College with their college-wide virtual reality (VR) initiative.  It is anticipated that a VR vendor will be announced in early March, and then the development of Nursing virtual reality scenarios will begin. 

  • We are pleased to announce that the Open RN Nursing Pharmacology textbook was accepted by the Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) project by UNESCO.  We have been invited to present the project at the international OE4BW conference in Slovenia in June 2020.

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