OER11, Manchester 11th May 2011

(Gillian Brown, Education Advisor)

Accredited Clinical Teaching Open Resources (ACTOR)

Contact: gillian@medev.ac.uk

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Accredited Clinical Teaching Open Resources (ACTOR)Partners:

University of Bristol

University of Cambridge

Hull York Medical School

Newcastle University

Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry

Contact: gillian@medev.ac.uk

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Sharing openly is good!• Use of public funds/money, cost

savings, collaboration• Transparency and accountability• Legally defensible• Advantages for student recruitment,

learning, satisfaction and retention• Equality of access, helping the

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The ACTOR Community of Practice

"...groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something

they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly." (Wenger, 2000)

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WHO is the community?

•PG Cert Clin Ed Leads/Tutors

• (accredited/ or not)

•Their students•Clinicians in NHS settings

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WHAT will they will do?

•Identify and categorise potential resources•Document compliance with MEDEV toolkit•Analyse policies and document practice•Align resources to the UK Professional Standards Framework

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WHY will they do it?• To analyse policies and practice• To share and gain access to

resources • To reduce development work when

creating resources from scratch

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WHAT’s in it for them?

• Enhancement of quality in learning and teaching resources

• Institutional collaboration• Advantages for marketing

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WHAT’s in it for them? • Learn how to licence

materials• Knowing where they stand

in regard to their own resources

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WHEN will they do it?

• Clinical diaries can be an issue

• During the remaining months of the project

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HOW do we sustain a sense of ‘community’ for people who only

meet online?

• F2F in beginning and wherever possible• Employ web 2.0 technologies/social

networking for communication

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Web 2.0 technologies and social networking

Tools we’ve used so far:•Project management software•Video conferencing (Elluminate / Adobe Connect) •Skype•Blogs: http://www.medev.ac.uk/blog/oer-phase-2-blog, http://www.medev.ac.uk/blog/actor/

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What OER tools will facilitate production and sharing of

resources?• Google• Flickr• Xpert• Xerte• GLOmaker• Etc…

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You don’t know what you don’t know

…especially when there is no time or resource to find out!

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So far…

• We’re getting there!• Slow start – timing of site visits• Seeing the benefit of sharing

resources within just one institution!

• Cascade effect

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University of Warwick Anatomy collection as part of their iTunes U presencedeimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/warwick.ac.uk.1885881473.0188588

1478.1882421734?i=2066269580

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Royal Veterinary College ‘ocular reflexes’ interactive activity as part of their submission to the Jorum repository http://resources.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/14457

Summary• Creating a national community while

facing a lack of time/resource (clinical diaries)

• Drawing on the potential that current web 2.0 and social networking technologies can offer

• A network/community centred around their professional activity – that they feel they’ve contributed to

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You don’t know what you don’t know

…especially when there is no time or resource to find out!

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Questions

…?

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References• Adobe Connect (2011) Web Conferencing | Adobe Connect,

http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html • Elluminate (2011) eLearning & Collaboration Solutions ::

Elluminate, http://www.elluminate.com • UKPSF (2006) United Kingdom Professional Standards

Framework (UKPSF) – The Higher Education Academy, http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/universitiesandcolleges/accreditation/ukpsf

• Wenger, E. (2000) ‘Communities of practice and learning systems’, Organization, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp.225–246.

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