Sharing Learning Objects in Health care
Conference March 2009
Heather Wharrad
University of Nottingham
Welcome
 5 CETLs
Reusable Learning Objects
Interprofessional Elearning (CIPEL)
Clinical & Communication CETL
Interdisciplinary Mental Health
Assessment and Learning in Practice (ALPs)
 5 Collections and repositories
Learning Exchange
NHS Evidence
NHS Learning Repository
INTUTE
JORUM
Delegates
From NHS and FE/HE sectors
Lecturers from FE and HE health & social care
Learning technologists/pedagogy advisers
Information & library officers
Elearning facilitators and advisors
Trust Educators and trainers
Repository 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..
Existing and emerging repositories with
health collections (Open)Jorum, NHS,
Intute, Learning Exchange, CETLs
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.
Its no good without the content....
Contribute
Use/reuse
What about content?
Learning object economy (Littlejohn, 2003)
Communities that agree terms to share and
reuse learning objects
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”
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/HE
 70,000+ students (nursing alone) in 70 colleges and universities
 Take a core element – handwashing
 Cost to produce10 minute high quality multimedia learning = £1400
 x70 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 initiatives
Secretary 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 forms
June 2008
58 RLOs
<40% complete the feedback
Reuse analysis
No effect on rating
Map of reuse
Interactive map
What factors have facilitated reuse?
RLOs
Freely available
Easily accessible
Quality assured
Relevant to the curriculum
People
Building communities
Altruism
Committed teams/partners
Building a reputation
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
Programme
9.30
9.45
10.25
11.05
11.20
12.20
1.20
2.20
Welcome and aims for the day
Repositories and communities 1
NHS Evidence
Anne Weist
NHS Repository
Bertha Yuen Man Low
Developing resources 1
Centre for Interprofessional e-learning( CIPEL CETL)
TBC
Centre for Interprofessional Mental Health Education
Tarsem Singh Cooner
Coffee
Developing resources 2
Reusable Learning Object CETL
Richard Windle & Mike Taylor
Clinical and Communication Skills CETL
Maggie Nicol & Natasa Perovic
Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS-CETL)
Maria Parks & Blayn Parkinson
Lunch
Repositories and communities 2
JORUM
Nicola Siminson
INTUTE
Jackie Wickham & Lorriane Wojciechowicz
The Learning Exchange
Ian Watson
Demo of Repository and Workshop group sessions
Chair: Heather Wharrad
Chair: Richard Windle
Chair: Lucrezia Herman
Chair: Fred Riley
Groupwork
Discussion 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 lifelong learning in health care?
 5 groups with facilitator (nominate a scribe)
 Demo LOs and address 2 specific Q’s relating to the
above trigger
 Bring 3 recommendations relating to your 2 Q’s to the
plenary session