24 March 2009

Sharing Learning Objects in Health Care

The Learning ExchangeSocial Services

Learning Object Repository

Ian Watson & Paul Hart

Institute for Research & Innovation in Social Services

© 2009 Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services.This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland

The Learning Exchange:

Repository for the social services – 1900 items

• Multimedia Learning Objects• PDF• audio• web links

The Learning Exchange:

Repository for the social services – 1900 items

• Multimedia Learning Objects• PDF• audio• web links

Users

Social work students and lecturers

Social services workforce

Centres for Excellence

Users

Social work students and lecturers

Social services workforce

Centres for Excellence

Content

• Learning objects• Policy documents• Research reports• Advice notes• Still images• Video • Powerpoint slides

Learning Objects

• IRISS objects– Communication and Practice Learning– Criminal Justice and Domestic Violence– Community Care and Older People

• Scripted by social work educators

• Professional actors

• Professional direction, recording and post production

• Designed to complement the revised Social Work curriculum

– Podcasts• Research seminars

• Policy launch events

• IRISS derivative objects– Volatile Substance Abuse (ReSolv)

– Good Practice Guide on Involving People who Use Services and Carers (Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability)

• Third party objects– Social Care Institute for Excellence e-learning objects

Audience / Users

• Originally Social Work Students and Academics– Deposit by academics

• Copyright and warranties: major barrier to deposit• Concern about ‘giving away’ valuable assets

• Now the wider social services workforce– Deposit by specialist contributors

• IRISS absorbs the risk

• educate contributors– STRADA (Scottish Training on Drugs and Alcohol)

Sharing and Re-use

Barriers• Repository software provides no usage statistics

• Copyright

• IRISS material now Creative Commons licensed

Drivers for sharing• Use of standards:

• LOM/DC and IMS; OAI-PMH / SRU

• Creative Commons

Drivers - Viral Strategy

Community Aspects

• Promotion through participation in communities

• Clyde Valley Learning and Development Project Social Care Group

• eLearning Alliance Scotland

• Learning Exchange Blog

• Community of Practice

• Elg, Moodle, Ning (K4P)

• Social Services Knowledge Scotland – Portal and community space

Links

• www.iriss.ac.uk

• www.iriss.ac.uk/openlx

• http://www.iriss.ac.uk/IRISSlearning

• www.ssks.org.uk