Emerging Technologies and Educational Practices for Innovation and Change.

Abstract

The goal of the university is to prepare its students for the current and future world. Twenty-first century nurses need to be prepared using 21stcentury teaching and learning techniquesVand thatmeans using technology to teach, engage, and evaluate students. Current technologies, such as use of the Internet, social networks, 3D video, Smartphones, bibliometric and citation technologies, mobile and online learning, virtual reality, and enabling technologies, can be used as effectivemethods to engage students in deeper learning and in the critical skills of critical reasoning, problem solving, collaboration, and lifelong learning required of the modern nurse. Faculty ‘‘who teach in colleges and universities must adjust their skills to meet the needs of the students they will be serving in the 21st century.’’ Students today are technologically savvy; Generation X (Gen X) and Generation Y (Gen Y) students expect faculty to use technology in their teaching and learning strategies.