Implications for nursing faculty

As a key resource, nursing educators were expected to assimilate into a foreign DE environment with their existing experience and training. It was soon discovered that teaching online requires alternate teaching and learning processes whereby educators must communicate differently. Nurse educators found themselves asking questions like, “How do I reproduce learning moments in the online environment?” “How do I cover the same amount of material in this new format?” How will students learn from class discussion with asynchronous class meetings?” (Fortino & Wolf, 2007).