One of the action points to come out of the inaugural SLOHSIG meeting was a ‘scoping exercise’, to get an idea of the number and range of healthcare e-learning resources that are freely available online, but aren’t in a formal digital resource repository such as Jorum. A major problem for teachers and students finding usable resources is that they’re scattered around many unconnected and difficult to find sites, which informs the major SLOHSIG goal of a ‘one-stop shop’ which aggregates all these unsung resources behind a simple search interface (such as the IRISS Learning Exchange).
This ongoing blog entry is an attempt to list freely-available, and freely-usable, resources and resource collections, to give us all an idea of the number and quality of online resources that we’ll need to aggregate, and to be included in the eventual ‘one-stop shop’. It’s not a definitive reference list, but rather a rough guide to what’s out there. Rules for inclusion:
- The site must be a primary site on which the resources are hosted, not another list of links to resources elsewhere.
- The resources must be freely available for non-profit educational purposes.
- The resources must have some intrinsic instructional content.
- The site owner must have given her/his written permission for the resources to be publicised, either on the site or in an email.
The conditions above might seem restrictive, but even following those we’re going to end up with tens, likely hundreds of resources. The list needs to be a collective work, so contributions are very welcome. Whether you’re a SLOHSIG contributor or a colleague in healthcare, do please post resources that fit the above criteria in the comments to this blog.
Resource list
SONET Reusable Learning Objects
Clinical Skills Resources. Provided by the CETL for Clinical & Communication Skills, Queen Mary University, London.
Online Learning Resources from the Leeds University School of Healthcare.
Nursing Standard Quick Reference Guides. Short guides for nurses on clinical skills and patient care.
Virtual Analytic Laboratory. Interactive multimedia resouces on bioscience lab skills, produced by Viv Rolfe.
From Laurian – a couple of other interesting initiatives for starters BUT may not fulfil all of the listed criteria (sorry about that) and I have not yet considered the implications of number 4!
MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/
SONIC scenarios http://www.uclan.ac.uk/health/schools/school_of_nursing/studying_in_school_of_nursing/sonic/scenarios/scenarios.php
Virtual Health Care Team scenarios http://www.vhct.org/studies.htm
OU OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/category.php?id=6
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health open courseware http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/EpiInfectiousDisease/lectureNotes.cfm
UMass Boston Courseware http://ocw.umb.edu/
Tufts OpenCourseware http://ocw.tufts.edu/
MERLOT http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2699&&
SkillStat http://www.skillstat.com/
Think it will be interesting to see the outputs of e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) but I am not sure if they will be freely available and in the public domain?
