Sharing Learning Objects in Health care Conference March 2009 Heather Wharrad University of Nottingham
Jan 04, 2016
Sharing Learning Objects in Health care
Conference March 2009
Heather Wharrad
University of Nottingham
Welcome5 CETLs
Reusable Learning ObjectsInterprofessional Elearning (CIPEL)Clinical & Communication CETLInterdisciplinary Mental Health Assessment and Learning in Practice (ALPs)
5 Collections and repositoriesLearning ExchangeNHS Evidence NHS Learning RepositoryINTUTEJORUM
DelegatesFrom NHS and FE/HE sectors
Lecturers from FE and HE health & social careLearning technologists/pedagogy advisersInformation & library officersElearning facilitators and advisorsTrust Educators and trainersRepository and elearning companies
Why are we here?
A vision and a proposition…
A seamless gateway to learning where lifelong learners in health care have access to open, individualised, ‘just in time’, high quality and quality assured (multimedia?) elearning materials to support and assess core skills and knowledge across the curriculum
…as they move from school, college, work and home.
“…wider seamless integration of open cross-sector tools, resources and systems for education web 2.0”
(Selwyn et al, 2008 Education 2.0? Designing the web for teaching and learning)
We have the technology..
Ways of searching (harvesting) from multiple repositories IRISS
Technical challenge is to improve the integration and interoperability and look for ways of integrating Web2 and 3 technologies.
Existing and emerging repositories with health collections (Open)Jorum, NHS, Intute, Learning Exchange, CETLs
Its no good without the content....
Contribute Use/reuse
What about content?
Wiley, 2001“Any digital resource that can be reused to facilitate learning”
Jacobsen, 2002 “A discrete reusable collection of content used to present and
support a single learning objective."
UCEL, 2002 "A digital resource based on a single learning objective and
comprising a stand-alone collection of 4 components: presentation, activity, assessment & links"
RLO-CETL (2005)“A learning object is the minimum, meaningful pedagogical unit required to achieve a learning goal or objective”
Learning object economy (Littlejohn, 2003)Communities that agree terms to share and reuse learning objects
What about the content?Learning object economy
Communities that agree terms to share and reuse learning objects
Great potential for H&SC - largest subject areas in FE/HE70,000+ students (nursing alone) in 70 colleges and universitiesTake a core element – handwashingCost to produce10 minute high quality multimedia learning = £1400x70 institutions cost = £98,000. 1 copy in an open repository and 70 institutions using it – cost £20
per institution Divided by numbers of students -cost per student is pence
How many handwashing learning objects exist already?
‘Unlocking the content’
Open educational resources initiativesSecretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills…
“a new approach to virtual education based on a corpus of open learning content: the UK must have a core of open access learning resources organised in a coherent way to support on-line and blended learning by all higher education institutions and to make it
more widely available in non-HE environments.”
Cooke report (2008)
At http://www.dius.gov.uk/policy/documents/online_innovation_in_he_131008.pdf )
‘Unlocking the content’
Content ‘locked’ within VLEs and not developed for reuse
Barriers to sharing and reuse (NIH)
Building communities who feel able to share content (‘bottom up not top down’)
User driven content creation and sharing
NIH - Analysis of Reuse
1258 feedback formsJune 200858 RLOs<40% complete the feedback
Reuse analysis
No effect on rating
Map of reuse
Interactive map
What factors have facilitated reuse?
Freely available
Easily accessible
Quality assured
Relevant to the curriculum
Building communities
Altruism
Committed teams/partners
Building a reputation
RLOs
People
Today is about:
Using the conference repository as a model of sharing…
Content
Community
Culture
….with the ultimate aim of enhancing the skills of our learners and improving patient outcomes
Programme9.30 Welcome and aims for the day
9.45 Repositories and communities 1 Chair: Heather Wharrad
NHS EvidenceAnne Weist
NHS RepositoryBertha Yuen Man Low
10.25 Developing resources 1 Chair: Richard Windle
Centre for Interprofessional e-learning( CIPEL CETL)TBC
Centre for Interprofessional Mental Health EducationTarsem Singh Cooner
11.05 Coffee
11.20 Developing resources 2 Chair: Lucrezia Herman
Reusable Learning Object CETLRichard Windle & Mike Taylor
Clinical and Communication Skills CETLMaggie Nicol & Natasa Perovic
Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS-CETL)Maria Parks & Blayn Parkinson
12.20 Lunch
1.20 Repositories and communities 2 Chair: Fred Riley
JORUMNicola Siminson
INTUTEJackie Wickham & Lorriane Wojciechowicz
The Learning ExchangeIan Watson
2.20 Demo of Repository and Workshop group sessions
GroupworkDiscussion Focus
Health care and health care education are; diverse, ever changing, idiosyncratic, highly pressurised, driven by a multitude of external influences, evidence-based, accountable….
The conference repository represents a putative attempt at sharing resources. With regards to the dynamic needs, characteristics and culture of the health care community, how can we make our attempts at sharing resources grow and have biggest impact for life-long learning in health care?
5 groups with facilitator (nominate a scribe)Demo LOs and address 2 specific Q’s relating to the above triggerBring 3 recommendations relating to your 2 Q’s to the plenary session