Developing Open Educational Resources Developing Open Educational Resources for Interprofessional Educationfor Interprofessional Education

Jacqui Williams, TIGER Academic Lead, De Montfort UniversityMing Nie, TIGER Evaluator, University of Leicester

12 May 2011 OER 11, Manchester

TIGERTIGER collects, develops and shares reusable, customisable Open Educational Resources (OERs) designed for Interprofessional Education (IPE) in Health and Social Care between the three institutions, academics, their existing communities of practice, employers and the wider community.

What is What is IPEIPE??

IPEIPE occurs when students learn about each other’s professional practice to enable more effective collaboration and improve health outcomes (Barr, 2002).

Regional Regional IPE IPE strategystrategy

Developing interprofessional competencies, before and beyond registration

The Three Strand Model

Learning beyond registration

Strand One

Strand Two

Strand Three

Practise where possible

Practise where possible

How How IPE IPE is taught?is taught?

Competence Framework

How How IPE IPE is taught?is taught?

The Leicester Model of The Leicester Model of IPEIPE

How How IPE IPE is taught?is taught?

Students and service users discuss the key

messages for professional practice

Interprofessional student groups have conversations with two service users

Students discuss what they learned

Students present their learning in accessible formats to the participating service users and their peers

Students take their learning into practice

Students in an Students in an IPEIPE session session

• Local, national and international need for enabling IPE• Need for OERs to benefit IPE in Health and Social Care• Solve ongoing challenges in cross-professional

collaboration by:– Identifying, collecting, developing and releasing reusable and

customisable OERs– Enabling wider and open access to OERs in work-based settings

Why OER for Why OER for IPEIPE??

Topics of TIGER OERs Learning hours

Leicester model (Inequalities in Health) 170

Learning Inter-Professionally 30

Team working and collaborative practice (undergraduate & postgraduate) 52

Patient safety 50

Service improvement 30

Learning public health 200

Interprofessional proactive care and rehabilitation 10

TOSCE: Team Objective Structured Clinical Examination 10

Postgraduate certificate in practice education 400

Disability 30

Mental health 50

Dementia 22.5

Prescribing 90

Stroke 20

Diabetes 20

Diabetes in the young 100

Neuro rehabilitation 200

Listening 50

Police, paramedic and midwifery IPE 30

Interviews with IPE experts 20

Total 1584.5

TIGER TIGER OERsOERs

TIGER TIGER repositoryrepository

TIGERTIGER quality process quality process

Teaching Material

Teaching Material Publicly Usable

Material

Publicly Usable Material OER

OER

Input from partners

Input from partners Screening

Screening IPR and © clearing

IPR and © clearing Validation by

users

Validation by users Release

ReleaseEvaluation

EvaluationTransformation

Transformation

In e-format

Accuracy, currency

Understood by a non-specialist

Can be used ‘as is’

Used in the teaching

Recognise CAIPE principles

In e-format

Accuracy, currency

Understood by a non-specialist

Can be used ‘as is’

Used in the teaching

Recognise CAIPE principles

Initial screening passed

Align with health education curricular outcomes

Self-contained

Coherent standalone OER

Editorial issues removed

Initial screening passed

Align with health education curricular outcomes

Self-contained

Coherent standalone OER

Editorial issues removed

Legally clean and clear to be moved to the public domain

Legally clean and clear to be moved to the public domain

Appropriate metadata

Tagged for easy search

Available in different formats

Appropriate license assigned

Created in accessible forms

Easy navigation

Appropriate metadata

Tagged for easy search

Available in different formats

Appropriate license assigned

Created in accessible forms

Easy navigation

Easy to find the available formats

Easy to download

Accurate content

Sufficient information attached to each OER

Easy to repurpose

User-friendly interface

Easy to find the available formats

Easy to download

Accurate content

Sufficient information attached to each OER

Easy to repurpose

User-friendly interface

Upload to each agreed platform

Feedback form associated with each OER

Clear mechanism for end user to submit revised or repurposed OER

Upload to each agreed platform

Feedback form associated with each OER

Clear mechanism for end user to submit revised or repurposed OER

Evaluate the use of OERs by stakeholders

Evaluate the use of OERs by stakeholders

CRITERIACRITERIA QUALITYQUALITY

If quality criteria not met If quality criteria not met

TIGERTIGER evaluation evaluation

Key stakeholders Evaluation angles Data collection methods

Staff (academics, managers, copyright officer, technical support)

Considerations in pedagogical design; challenges and problems in the process Semi-structured interviews

Students Use of and access to OERs; benefits to learning; problems and difficulties in use

Focus group interviewsSemi-structured interviewsOnline questionnaire survey

Practitioners Wider and open access in work-based settingsProblems and difficulties in use Semi-structured interviews

Staff viewsStaff views

• Challenges in pedagogical design– Interaction is key for IPE– From face-to-face to OER– Facilitator guides– From contextualised to generic

• Issues in copyright– Third-party material– Different agreements

Student viewsStudent views

• First pilot: June 2011, De Montfort University• Format: two half day workshops• 20-30 student Nurses, Social workers and Midwives• Test two OERs: Dementia, Disability and Parenting• Activity:

• Navigation through TIGER repository, review of the two OERs• Group tasks to complete• Focus groups for evaluation

Beyond Beyond TIGERTIGER

• SCORE Fellowship: Sept 2011 – Jun 2012• Support of 10 UK wide practice IPE champions in the

use of the TIGER repository• Evaluate the use and impact of the TIGER OERs on

health care professionals in the UK

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Jacqui Williams (JWilli13@dmu.ac.uk)Ming Nie (ming.nie@le.ac.uk)