pathways for open resource sharing through convergence in healthcare education (porsche) lindsay...

Pathways for Open Resource Sharing through Convergence in Healthcare Education (PORSCHE)Lindsay WoodProject Officer, Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV), UKTel: +44 (0) 191 222 5888 lindsay@medev.ac.uk

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Background

• part of a £5M UK OpenCourseWare (OCW/OER) programme• healthcare students train extensively in practice where they are

supervised by clinical staff charged with providing education to pre-registration trainees

• access to National Health Service (NHS) online services for undergraduate student learning, especially those located in practice education, is limited

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UK policy context

• openness - government, data, software, education• economic cuts and efficiency savings• patient consent• student learning experience

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Project partners

• Jorum• NHS e-learning repository• European and US based repositories

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Aims

• seamless repository access to academic and clinical learning resources for healthcare students

– deliver a substantial number of OCW in healthcare education– establish the basis for a long term national partnership between the NHS

and academia– sharing of appropriately licenced content between academia and healthcare

national repositories– achieve widespread uptake of the MEDEV good practice toolkit– promote debate over the development of a Consent Commons

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Technical approach and standards

• metadata exchange• live cross-search• content exchange

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MEDEV good practice toolkit

• learning resource metadata collection• content comparison against good practice guidance on

copyright/IPR, consent and quality assurance• sign-off/auditing• learning resource ‘put in many places’ syndication through APIs

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Summary

• form the scaffold for a national partnership of open sharing• establish the value of the services in enhancing the student

learning experience in clinical placement settings• ACTOR is an informed community of practice able to exemplify

best practice in sharing learning resources

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