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