TEL in Health and Clinical Education

[SimonSteger]

Hello,

 

I currently work as a Paramedic in the UK and am interested in people’s experiences with, and thoughts about TEL in Health and Clinical Education. I gained a DTLLS qualification a couple of years ago and am interested in applying TEL appropriately to compliment the traditional teaching style typically applied.

[Kerry Crawley]

Hi,

I am also a paramedic by profession and currently employed as associate head of department for Allied Health Professions at the University of the West of England.

This is a winning topic for me, as taking into account the DoH,s TEL strategy (2012) and consistent HE drive for TEL, I am increasingly interested in discovering new TEL methodologies in Health education. For me, keeping people engaged in the practice environment poses an interesting challenge.  I have some experience using vodcasts, virtual patients and I am currently looking at eportfolios.  I am particularly  interested in how we effectively apply more constructivist methodologies, such as blogs, wikis, twitter and MOOCs etc .

hopefully, taking part in this will help.

[Roger Harrison]

Hello, sounds like an interesting space. I’m a senior lecturer in public health at University of Manchester. I teach on a fully online distance learning programme in public health and primary care. I’ve been involved with this for about seven years now, having come from a public health research background in the NHS. We’ve been developing the masters programme in public health over ten years now, and I’ve been teaching on it for seven. One of the challenges we have is that it is an international course, with connectivity issues we need to be mindful of. And also most students are also working so there are challenges about getting good discussion activity online and also the extent we move towards more synchronous working.

I’m also keen to find out more about OERs and how these can be filtered and grouped across various OER providers to then provide a summary of relevant information that is out their for public health – this could be an open portal for the public and for professionals.

regards

Roger

 

[BarbaraWilford]

Hello, this area hits lots of buttons for me too! My background is diagnostic radiography, currently I teach research methods and am e learning coordinator for the School of health and social care at Teesside.   Supporting learning whilst on placement using appropriate technologies is one area I’m interested in. My paramedic colleagues embrace the concept of mobile learning and the use of technologies to support that, but other disciplines no so. The relevance, access, acceptance, politics etc of using technology to support learning in practice are all testy issues which are as yet unresolved. Hopefully access to other peoples practice and experiences  will help me.

Barbara

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