IONS: Innovations for On-line Nursing Students, is a project designed to develop, pilot, and disseminate a unique model of distance education training for nursing faculty and create an ongoing learning community to support nursing faculty as they become expert online educators. 

The training will enable nursing faculty to put courses and programs online while integrating resources that already exist throughout the state. Such resources include but are not limited to online student services, access to electronic library resources, streaming videos, and online tutoring.  The proposed model will sustain a long-term community of professional nursing educators. 

We believe that the unique, ongoing needs of online nurse educators can best be met by other nurses.