To achieve our mission, we have developed a variety of strategies to foster faculty recruitment, development and retention. These include Teaching Intensives (short on-site learning experiences combined with distance-based learning) and a Virtual Learning Community that unites nursing faculty and nurses in diverse settings. We invite you to explore these opportunities:

The Teaching Intensives allow you to learn from and network with expert faculty in geriatrics. The Intensives combine gero-specialty content with the application of innovative learner-centered instruction to enhance your teaching skills in care of the aging, and ultimately improving your students’ learning experiences. The Intensives can benefit nurses and nurse educators in various roles including: faculty, clinical instructors, clinical preceptors, clinicians, and graduate students. For additional information and registration see the links below:

 

The Virtual Learning Community (VLC) will provide you an avenue to connect with nurses and nursing faculty in diverse locations, and enhance your access to state-of-the-art teaching and geriatric resources, and provide ongoing academic mentoring and support.

The highlight of the VLC is access to the Duke Geriatric Nursing Education Learning Objects Repository (Duke Gero-LOR). The Duke Gero-LOR is currently being developed in collaboration with the North Carolina State Education System initiative, known as NCLOR, (North Carolina Learning Objects Repository). The Duke Gero-LOR will be a repository of open-access, evaluated, digitally-archived teaching and learning materials. Resources to support teaching such as audiovisual aids, tutorials, practice-based guidelines, and standardized-test items will be available to you. The Duke Gero-LOR will allow you and other faculty to share teaching tools and to receive feedback as to how helpful the tools were in real-world applications, including suggestions for modification and improvement.