{"id":17926,"date":"2023-02-07T13:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T18:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=17926"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:42:55","slug":"college-of-veterinary-medicine-and-purdue-university-online-team-give-veterinary-nursing-distance-learning-program-a-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/college-of-veterinary-medicine-and-purdue-university-online-team-give-veterinary-nursing-distance-learning-program-a-makeover.php","title":{"rendered":"College of Veterinary Medicine and Purdue University Online team give Veterinary Nursing Distance Learning program a makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-longdesc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23_02_doggy-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Two veterinarians are examining a large, fluffy dog in a clinical setting.\" class=\"wp-image-17928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23_02_doggy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23_02_doggy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23_02_doggy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23_02_doggy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23_02_doggy-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23_02_doggy-353x235.jpg 353w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23_02_doggy-1320x880.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/23_02_doggy-scaled.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 20 years old, Purdue\u2019s Veterinary Nursing Distance Learning (VNDL) program has been around a long time in online education terms, which are something like dog years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program was starting to show its age even as the pandemic experience and the continuing growth and maturation of online learning raised expectations from online students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Purdue College of Veterinary Medicine leaders also were concerned about student retention levels in the VNDL program, whose courses, taught by faculty and staff members throughout different departments of the college, varied in look and feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/discover.online.purdue.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/03%20-%20College%20of%20Veterinary%20Medicine%20and%20Purdue%20University%20Online%20team%20give%20Veterinary%20Nursing%20Distance%20Learning%20program%20a%20makeover.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full story at Purdue Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 20 years old, Purdue\u2019s Veterinary Nursing Distance Learning (VNDL) program has been around a long time in online education terms, which are something like dog years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,17,644],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-17926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-in-the-news","category-veterinary-nursing","tag-homepage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34384,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17926\/revisions\/34384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}