ABSTRACT
When instructors contemplate the future, the prospects frighten them. Most foresee increasing numbers of students, with ever-greater educational and social needs, while budgets continue to stagnate. As one instructor elaborated the problem:
These trends are often expressed as fiscal concerns, and then as relentless time pressure. As a nursing instructor mentioned, “It just means that people have to do more with less, and it filters down, of course, to us [instructors], too.”
