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Innovation in Teaching & Learning

In 2015 the Council launched a call to its members for case studies that highlighted examples of innovation in teaching and learning. The call focused primarily on four categories – pre-registration education (undergraduate), postgraduate education (taught), postgraduate education (research) and widening participation – all of which were identified as important themes within health higher education. HEIs from across the four nations submitted case studies detailing examples of innovation in teaching and learning that are now available for all to access.

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Learning Conversation events

University of the West of Scotland

The new Learning Conversation events provide a professional forum for all pre-registration Nursing and Midwifery students and academic staff to share thoughts, ideas and reflect on a contemporary selected topic, through the promotion of shared learning and widening participation across disciplines. This forum embraces and promotes active inter-professional learning and shared understanding across the pre-registration…

Bridges to Learning: delivering higher level skills through lunch and learn sessions.

The Open University

The innovation is based on Bridges to Learning partnership work between the Open University (OU), UNISON and Workers Education Association (WEA) in the north east of England . Common interest in widening participation in work based learning and providing progression routes into higher education resulted in successful bids for Union Learning Funding over the last…

Inter-professional learning: Green Templeton College; the University of Oslo in Norway; Oxford Brookes University

Oxford Brookes University

The MSc Management Health and Social Care team at Brookes have worked with partners at Green Templeton College Oxford and University of Oslo in Norway to promote and facilitate inter-professional learning opportunities between postgraduate medics, health economists and the professions supplementary to medicine. Developed in 2013, the initiative involves an Erasmus exchange agreement (Oslo-Brookes) and…

Bridges to Learning: a regional partnership approach to widening participation.

The Open University

The innovation is based on Bridges to Learning partnership work between the Open University (OU), UNISON and Workers Education Association (WEA) in the north east of England. Common interest in widening participation in work based learning and providing progression routes into higher education resulted in successful bids for Union Learn Funding over the last 6…

Providing students a choice to study in preferred language by using pre-recorded lecture capture.

Bangor University

This session was based upon the Race (2007) ‘ripples on a pond’ model of learning involving wanting, doing, feedback and digesting of learning. The preparation used a blended approach including lecture capture, in two different languages. To encourage learner engagement an interactive workbook was designed as a resource to evaluate students’ learning. This was then…

Online Practice Assessment and Evaluation (PARE) Project

University of Chester

This is a collaborative HEWI funded project with nine HEI’s of which the University of Chester leads. The innovation is an Online Practice Assessment Record & Evaluation (PARE) tool, which enables student nurses, midwives and other healthcare related students to access their practice assessment documentation anytime, anywhere, and on any PC or mobile device. Mentors…

The use of diagramming for self and peer analysis of simulation design approaches by neophyte simulation educators as part of a PG healthcare education module

Sheffield Hallam University

There are many considerations when setting up simulation in healthcare. Local and national drivers, equipment, faulty and learners’ time, resourcing, uni-professional or interprofessional, simulation centre or in-situ, how to run a facilitated debrief, are just some of the many considerations. As part a Sheffield Hallam University module Developing Simulation and Human Factors Education the students…

eLearning for Social Inclusion- eLeSI Training

University of Chester

An e-learning package has been develop to provide training for teachers, families, carers and practitioners that work with people with learning disability, autism spectrum conditions and or have mental health problems. This package is open to everyone, and provides free access in French, English, Spanish and Romanian. The training provides: a generic module about people…

The Hearing Voices: a Guide to understanding helping and empowering individuals Mobile Application

University of Chester

Earlier this year the ‘Hearing Voices: A Guide to understanding helping and empowering individuals’ Mobile App was launched. The App is primarily aimed at health and social care practitioners to enhance their understanding of the experience of hearing voices and was developed by pooling the expertise of a multi-disciplinary project team, including people with lived…

Undergraduate interprofessional learning in clinical practice: A collaborative approach to creating a sustainable learning environment.

University of Lincoln

The project is a collaborative development between the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) and eight universities across in the East Midlands Deanery. The aim of this project is to develop interprofessional learning (IPL) opportunities for undergraduate students in Pilgrim Hospital, Boston. Central to the success of this project was establishing a network of healthcare…