2. My Background with eLearning
• Further Education
Worked as a Learning Resource Manager for Hull FE/HE. I was
responsible for the development of eLearning resources from 1998-2001. I
worked with a number of systems including Blackboard, Oracle i-
Learn,WebCT and Teknical
• Primary Care
Joined South Humber HA in Feb 2001 TUPE’d to North East Lincs Primary
Care by summer 2001. Primary Care worked with North Lincs and Goole
Acute Services to deliver a small eLearning pilot mainly on Fire-training
between 2002 and 2003
• North and East Yorks and Northern Lincs SHA
Worked to deliver an eLearning system to 18 Trusts in NYNL SHA to
support the NEYNL eLearning strategy written to support “Working
Together Learning Together”. After tender process SERCO Learning
system was chosen as the platform
3. My Background in eLearning
• CLU
I was asked by the NHSU in summer 2004 to find a safe home for
the statutory and mandatory learning programmes they had
produced before they were dissolved as an organisation.
I worked with the Core Learning unit which was housed by South
Yorks SHA to repurpose and make accessible, Working for the
NHS,Fire,Health and Safety and Manual Handling and Lifting. I
also worked with them to develop a learning platform which would
be accessible to all Trusts and which could house other packages
such as Diversity.
• Nationally
I have worked with the National eLearning Operational Group
which were responsible for producing the NHS eLearning
Framework and the NHS eLearning roadmap
4. NLH – Contribution to eLearning
• Background
The National Library for Health is a modern, integrated, hybrid service that aims to
be ‘the best, most trusted health related knowledge service in the world’.
• Objectives
To further develop the value of NLH, a repository of e-learning materials will be
created, to contain e-learning packages that NLH can offer to their customer base.
Building on from that, a scoping study will be carried out to assess requirements
such as technical specifications and essential features.
• Related Projects
CfH (Connecting for Health)
RITI (Radiology Integrated Training Initiative)
CLU (Core Learning Unit)
ESR (Electronic Staff Record)
SfH (Skills for Health)
NHS-HE Connectivity Project
5. NLH – Contribution to eLearning
• Rationale
The mission of the NHS Institute (supported by the NLH) is to “improve health
outcomes and raise the quality of delivery in the NHS by accelerating the uptake of
proven innovation and improvements in healthcare delivery models and processes,
medical products and devices and healthcare leadership.”
• In-Scope
• The development of a national repository to house eLearning objects for the NHS
which is structured by the use of an agreed taxonomy or taxonomies to enable best
access to eLearning by the NHS in the first instance and by key strategic partners in
the future.
• Out of Scope
The development of a national platform to deliver and manage eLearning for the
NHS.
• Stakeholders
NLH (including 1750 Health Librarians)
SHAs/Deaneries
Trusts
Key partners eg Social Services HEIs
6. NLH – Contribution to eLearning
• Deliverables
A platform to house eLearning Objects
Taxonomy/Taxonomies to support access to eLearning objects
A QA system to identify, manage and maintain eLearning objects
• Dependencies
National eLearning Alliance (including CfH) supporting this
approach
The Institute for Innovation and Improvement agrreing this as part
of NLH business planning
Sustainable funding models
7. NLH – Contribution to eLearning
• Benefits
Improved value for money - Less time and money will be spent on
creating and purchasing content.
More efficient ways of working - As knowledge increases through
sharing of learning objects, service delivery will be progressively
improved through innovation
Improved eLearning skills in NHS workforce –Knowledge and
Educational professionals will be able to easily access quality-
assured and classified e-learning units designed to suit their
needs.
8. NLH – Contribution to eLearning
• Options
Do nothing - Health professionals will have to find alternative methods of
developing eLearning content. This will lead to expenditure in time and
development costs.
Identify and build a structured QA’d repository for existing e-learning
packages in-house. Will mean more staff will have to be employed to
manage this in-house
Identify and build a structured QA’d repository for existing e-learning
packages using external suppliers and existing systems/taxonomies. A
tender and contract process will need to be instigated.
• Timescales
Formulate proposal for NLH TDAG Sept 07
Form Project Board Oct 07
Produce PID Dec 07
Seek PID sign off by Jan/Feb 08
Launch project March/April 08