RESUMO
Over the last two years, the need for flexibility in delivery of courses to post-graduate students enrolled at the Australian Catholic University became pressing. Factors which contributed to this realization included the relatively small numbers of students enrolled over the five campuses of the University and the fact that these students resided thousands of kilometers apart. At the same time, the University decided to enter the world market for on-line education and targeted particular Faculty courses. The Master of Nursing Leadership, conducted by the Faculty of Health Sciences, was one such course. For lectures who teach units in these programmes, this created new opportunities for creativity in teaching. Over the last two years, I have taught four units in the Master of Nursing programme. One unit (Leadership in Nursing Practice) has been taught in four different modes: face to face, video conference, telephone conference and on-line. This has required a high degree of innovation with a number of different strategies being employed for each of the modes. The strategies employed depended on their suitability for the particular mode. These included the development of communication, through the sending of overheads via e-mail, and a telephone protcol. Students also learnt incidental skills such as how to manage a telephone and a video conference, as well as managing the technology. (AU)
