Founded on nursing education, the school has been established for almost fivedecades. The use of conventional plastic dummy as atechnology teaching tool toassist students acquiring problem-solving adaptability is soon to be expired in thenew education reform movement. One major reason is that clinical nursing skillshave to be practiced repetitively in simulated clinical scenarios in order to enhancethe overall clinical care capacity of nursing students, which is important for reducingnursing and medical negligence and protecting the precious life and safety of patients.
Considering the importance of clinical education, the librarians had constructed a
teaching resource integration platform, which as known as Multimedia on Demand
Teaching-assistant Project (hereafter referred as MOD Project), for knowledge
sharing and development via adopting their professional capacities in classification,
catalog, and educational supporting. The purpose of this project is to facilitate the
nursing department in creating a more comprehensive and effective learning
assisting system. The first function of this system is helping the instructors record the
learning process of their students in details, which can improve teaching quality
because the instructors become better at keeping track of the students’ learning
condition. The second function of the system is systemically integrating those
enormous teaching files to improve learning efficacy by letting the students
obtaining relevant information without time or space restriction. At this moment,
instructors after receiving the training provided by the librarians have uploaded 188
files using this system. Consequently, for those students attending clinical intern at
hospitals off-campus are now able to repetitively practice scenarios and skills they
previously learned at school via this system. This is a concrete example of howlibrarians can support teaching via technology and professional knowledge.
