LTSN01: supporting learning and teaching in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine

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LTSN-01 supporting learning and teaching in
medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine

• Paul Hollands
• Information and Web Development Officer
• paul_at_ltsn-01.ac.uk

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LTSN Higher EducationAcademy

• 24 Subject Centres based in UK HE institutions
• a Generic Centre (offering expertise and
  information on learning and teaching issues that
  cross subject boundaries), TechDis
• an Executive
• Funded by HE funding bodies of England, Scotland,
  Wales and NI for five years from 1999-2000

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LTSN Higher Education Academy

• Health and life sciences related centres
• LTSN-01 (http//www.ltsn-01.ac.uk)
• LTSN Health Sciences and Practice
  (http//www.health.ltsn.ac.uk)
• LTSN Centre for Bioscience (http//www.bio.ltsn.ac
  .uk)
• swapLTSN (http//www.swap.ac.uk)
• LTSN Psychology (http//www.psychology.ltsn.ac.uk)
  
• See all centres at http//www.ltsn.ac.uk

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LTSN Higher EducationAcademy

• Currently 4 main themes
• Assessment
• Employability
• E-learning
• Widening participation
• Outputs include conferences, workshops,
  discussion lists, publications and web based
  resources

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LTSN-01

• Subject centre for medicine, dentistry and
  veterinary medicine
• Based in the School of Medical Education
  Development, with national remit
• University of Edinburgh
• Royal College of Physicians
• Free!

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LTSN-01 mission

• To provide professional educational support to
  the institutions, teachers, students and
  practitioners of medicine, dentistry and
  veterinary medicine by facilitating the
  development of caring, knowledgeable, competent
  and skilful graduates who broadly understand
  health and disease and who are able to benefit
  from subsequent education and adapt to future
  developments in practice.

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How?
Build capacity
Enhance quality
Transfer good practice
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Building capacity

• Supported EU elearning project bids to the value
  of 3M
• JISC (c. 7M), FDTL4 (8.5M), ESRC-TLRP3 (8M),
  DoH (2M), charities
• LTSN-01 miniprojects (100K_at_lt5K each)
• Commissioning constituency - e.g NHS
• Extra funds released via LTSN
• Interprofessional learning (Triple), mental
  health (mhhe) and ethics teaching (ETHICS)

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Quality Enhancement

• Workshops and special interest groups
• Review of assessment practice
• Reusable learning objects, resource discovery and
  interoperability
• Developing systematic review for best evidence
  educational research
• Disseminate outcomes of national projects and
  good practice

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eLearning - Supporting Quality Enhancement

• eLearning
• Designed into the curriculum (blueprinting and
  outcomes)
• Enquiry-led (assessment driven)
• Collaboration (andr(o/a)gogy adult-centred)
• Learning resources, resource discovery, learning
  objects and sharing
• eAdministration
• MLEs, student support, quality monitoring

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Whats in it for me?

• http//www.ltsn-01.ac.uk
• Monthly email update via jiscmail list
• ltsn-01_at_jiscmail.ac.uk
• Email and telephone enquiry service - gt2000 in
  2002-03
• UK educational news, events and funding
  opportunities on your desktop - updated daily
• 01 the newsletter of LTSN-01

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Learning Resources

• Some useful websites (resource discovery)
• http//www.aditus.nhs.uk/Aditus/
• http//www.doh.gov.uk
• http//www.who.int/en
• http//www.nelh.nhs.uk
• http//www.omni.ac.uk
• http//axis.cbcu.cam.ac.uk/calreviews/
• http//www.clinicalteaching.nhs.uk

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RSS feeds
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eportfolios

• FDTL4 project - 1 of 38
• Collaboration - University of Newcastle upon
  Tyne, University of Leeds, University of
  Sheffield and University of Dundee
• 3 years - 250,0000
• Lead developer - Simon Cotterill
• http//www.eportfolios.ac.uk

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UMAP (FDTL4)

• Universities of Manchester,Liverpool,
  Sheffield,Leeds, Newcastle
• Developing a process for writing high quality
  assessment items
• Delivered on paper via normal test conditions,
  electronically for formative, etc.
• Generating a question bank (with statistics?)
• Item-writing workshop in Oxford 4/12/03

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X4L - JISC rationale

• X4L has been motivated by the imperative to make
  the most of the considerable investment that has
  taken place in a range of content which has high
  potential value for use in learning. X4L is lead
  by 25 projects from across the UK and involves
  more than 100 institutions and teams from
  colleges, universities, libraries, JISC services,
  local authorities and commercial companies. 

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X4L objectives

• To use and develop the best available tools to
  explore whether repurposing content can become a
  popular, sustainable way of producing e-learning
  materials for the future
• To increase the numbers of people in institutions
  with the necessary skills to repurpose learning
  objects
• To expose and begin to tackle the challenges
  associated with repurposing learning objects and
• To begin to populate a national repository with
  reusable learning materials, case studies and
  exemplars.

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Learning objects

• A learning object is defined... as any entity,
  digital or non-digital, that can be used, re-used
  or referenced during technology-supported
  learning.
• IEEE Draft Standard for Learning Object Metadata
  (July 2002)
• learning-objects_at_jiscmail.ac.uk

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ACETS

• Collaboration University of Edinburgh,
  University of Cambridge, University of Newcastle,
  University of Birmingham, University of
  Nottingham, Telford College and Suffolk College
• 3 years from 2003
• Releasing content
• Avoid reinventing that wheel - again!
• http//www.acets.ac.uk/

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Covering all areas of healthcare education, from
Medicine to Beauty Therapy, ACETS is
investigating the reuse of digital learning
materials in situated teaching contexts by
commissioning exemplars of learning objects
embedded in the teaching and learning practices
of academics and teachers.
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The ACETS exemplar has three components 1
formal statement of learning design - this is to
facilitate a degree of transferability and
analysis of object use across different teaching
and learning scenarios 2 reflective diary of
experiences and evaluations of the materials and
their educational efficacy 3 any materials
created (optional)
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• ACETS is recruiting around 30 academics and
  teachers from a wide range of disciplines to
  create our exemplars. The process is
• baseline survey to establish experience, local
  support and expectations
• resource discovery, observing and capturing
  techniques, identifying academic-selected
  materials against broad academic needs and
  interests
• object acquisition, upload and cataloguing in
  repository
• academics create exemplars and on completion
  return them to the project
• exemplars are analysed and evaluated in
  different teaching contexts

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• ACETS has a strong research focus
• baseline surveys yield contextual information
  for evaluating the exemplar - a well experienced
  and supported teachers might be expected to
  produce larger and more complex exemplars
• resource discovery analysis yields patterns and
  issues with busy teachers finding and acquiring
  reusable learning materials
• learning design, based on EML/IMS LD is an
  attempt to create a user-friendly way of formally
  expressing a teaching scenario that can be
  analysed and reused
• reflective diaries capture the complex, emergent
  and situated experiences of teachers, their
  problems and successes and their perspectives and
  expectations.

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ACETS members share a Collaborative Work
Environment to enable the 50 or so staff involved
to communicate, share materials and log
experiences and ideas. Two areas of content to be
tested Anatomy and Communication skills
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DIVERSE

• The UK Veterinary Medicine Disability Project
• Based at Royal Veterinary College, London
• Funding - 250K over 3 years
• LTSN-01 supported publication of 2 reports -
  Pushing the boat out and The Sequel

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The Future

• Education white paper February 2003
• Higher Education Academy and the eLearning agenda
  (TQEF)
• Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
  (CETL) 350M/5 years (England)

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Contact us

• LTSN-01
• Catherine Cookson Centre for Medical Education
  Health Informatics
• University of Newcastle
• 16/17 Framlington Place
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email enquiries_at_ltsn-01.ac.uk
• Web http//www.ltsn-01.ac.uk
• Jiscmail list http//www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/lts
  n-01.html

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Thank you!
enquiries_at_ltsn-01.ac.uk