Start date: 31 March 2005
End date: 30 June 2007
Funding programme: Distributed e-Learning programme
Project website:
http://www.etu.sghms.ac.uk/rehash
JISC theme(s): e-Learning, Information environment
The final report is available at the bottom of the page
Region: London
Overview
St. George’s and Guy's, King's and St.Thomas' School of Medicine have produced large collections of attractive, high quality, electronic resources which support their undergraduate programmes in medicine and healthcare. Both partners specialise, particularly, in the development of image-based and interactive resources, which have been extremely well-received by both staff and students. REHASH aims to repurpose these resources to different educational levels in order to produce a seamless progression and consistency in the transition from Further Education (FE) to Higher Education (HE).
Objective
The key objective of this project is to re-purpose the large existing collections of contextual RLOs (Reusable Learning Objects), to provide teachers and students with attractive learning materials to support:
- Courses which widen access to nursing, medicine and healthcare at levels NQF 3 (National Qualification Framework) and HE 0.
- Diploma and undergraduate programmes which follow these Access and Foundation Courses at NQF4/5, HE 1&2
Continuation of resources between HE and FE sectors will promote a feeling of familiarity, and enhance student support for adult learners, who often express both a high level of motivation, and a high level of anxiety.
Project Methodology
The regional target is to develop materials which support Access to Healthcare courses, Foundation entry to Medicine and the first two years of the medical undergraduate programmes, in the areas chosen (e.g. cells, tissues, body systems and genetics).
Partners will concentrate broadly on different areas both in terms of educational level and in terms of the areas of the curriculum addressed, though there will be continual sharing of resources. The focus of each sector (e.g. NQF3, HE 0, 1, 2) will depend upon both need and available resource. It is intended that each institution will play to its strengths, using the knowledge of SGUL & GKTSM in the sectors of medical and healthcare training, and that of the FE colleges in the transitional sectors of NQF and HE 0.
Our deliverable target is to address the repurposing of 60-70% of the objectives for basic and clinical sciences for medicine (standard HE 1&2), approximately 30% of the objectives of the 1-year foundation course for medicine and the objectives for HE 0.
All RLOs will be repurposed by HE academics and FE tutors, in close partnership with our courseware developers, who will create specialised lesson plans/contextual learning resources (Key Topics) for their students. These will be made available via a web site so that they can be used on a regional/national scale by the schools/colleges to teach these elements of the curriculum. Our long term aim is to make these resources available via a national repository. We also intend to build on the technologies that are in development with existing JISC programmes (e.g. Reload, Jorum and Shibboleth).
Implications/ Deliverables/ Stakeholders
REHASH will produce a steady progression of support for student learning, through three educational levels, and an attractive framework for educational development through separate courses. Integrated quality products which cover to adequate depth the objectives of the curriculum, and continue in a consistent pattern through different levels of courses, may help to reduce uncertainty and vulnerability among a large body of non traditional learners. This should lead to an improvement in levels of achievement and retention.
The advantage of this will be both local and national; local courses will add tailored resources to fill the gaps in their web delivered support, and the national repository will gain a large amount of material covering substantial tracts of the core healthcare curricula at different levels (i) Access to nursing (NQF 3) (ii) Foundation entry to medicine (HE 0). These resources will also support medical and healthcare diplomas and courses, and the undergraduate medical courses (HE 1&2).
Lead Institution
Project Partners