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  OER Success Stories: A WTCS nursing faculty member who adopted the OER Nursing Pharmacology textbook in her courses shared this student success data. (Keep in mind this is despite the impact of COVID ramifications): Fall 2019 (pre-OER): 75.8% average student pass rate Spring 2020 (OER as resource): 86.9% average student pass rate Fall 2020 (OER as resource): 81.7% average student pass rate A nursing student attending a non-WTCS college was failing the math component of her nursing course. Despite using several resources, the math calculations didn't make sense to her. She studied the resources in the "Math Calculations" chapter of the Nursing Pharmacology book and passed! WTCS students piloting the Open RN Nursing Skills textbook have shared that the associated online learning activities in each chapter have been helpful in learning the content. A nursing student shared that she has been sharing one textbook for each nursing course with  five roommates to save money. Wi

View the  full Quarterly Monitoring Report for the fourth quarter of the second year of the project. Highlights from this quarter include: The Nursing Skills  textbook has completed development and undergone peer review by over 65 faculty, industry members, students, and librarians. Revisions are currently being incorporated based on reviewer feedback. The e-book will be published by June 1 in Pressbooks and an affordable print version will be published this summer by XanEdu. The Nursing Fundamentals textbook has completed development and is undergoing final editing and proofreading.  It will undergo peer review in May 2021 and will be published this summer. The first Open RN Virtual Reality prototype scenario was developed incorporating three levels of learning using virtual simulation.  It was presented at IMSH in January 2021. Additional OER virtual simulations are being developed.  There have been over 94,000 views and almost 600 hours of watch time of OER augmented reality simul

  The Open RN team presented "Three Levels of Virtual Simulation Bring Learning to Life" at the 2021 International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare . View the  IMSH Slideshow  or watch the recorded IMSH presentation .

  Interested in hearing more about how the Open RN project is developing Virtual Reality scenarios using Acadicus software and H5P?  Join an Acadicus roundtable discussion on Friday, March 12th at 11 AM CST.  Read more information and register for the event at  https://acadicus.com/acadicus-roundtable-in-vr/

  In honor of Open Education Week 2021 , here is a link to our recorded presentation  from the Open Ed conference in November 2020. Looking forward to learning about other OER champions' worldwide achievements in Open Education this week!