Are You Ready for the Future
Finally, another challenge is managing the integration of textbook content into institutional virtual learning environments (VLEs) without impacting textbook sales. In addition to licensing some of our educational content for use in institutional VLEs, Elsevier has launched and is continuing to develop a range of products, which are designed to enhance the student’s learning experience. For example, Virtual Clinical Excursions, now in its third edition, is a software-based system that allows nursing students to enter a simulated clinical setting, work with a set of complex patients and access very detailed patient records. Students are required to collect and review assessment data, determine priorities for care, observe and analyze nurse-client-family interactions, administer medications competently, and practice time-management skills.