Infection Control and Decontamination has been developed with Irene Black, Infection Control Training Team, NHS Education Scotland (NES). It is a series of tutorials for dental staff working in a clinical environment. It is based on the first In-Practice Training session provided by NES. It would also be suitable to reinforce the training and as …
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Item Bank is a tool used to browse, search, author and analyse assessment questions. The intended users are Assessment Panels, administrators and academics involved in the authoring and preparation of assessments within Higher Education. Item Bank also provides statistical analysis and graphical representations of student performance and question efficacy useful for standard-setting objectives and Assessment …
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The Assessment Engine (AE) is a web-based tool, used by Medical school administrators to record and aggregate undergraduate marks in MBChB assessments. The AE also provides a view where results are released to students. It has been in use since 1997. A new version of the tool is being developed which will allow: flexible aggregation …
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Community of Practice Support Environment The GPST Community of Practice Support Environment (CoPSE) was produced in partnership between the University of Edinburgh and NHS Education Scotland (NES). The CoPSE provides a supported learning environment online for students and registrars, delivering dynamic content and facilitating community based learning. Learning resources are provided via dynamic pages, discussion …
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Curriculum Outcome Mapping: Management and Delivery Online COM:MAND is a modular solution design for creating and structuring curriculum outcomes, mapping those outcomes to other relevant datasets, embedding the outcome information into managed virtual learning environments (VLE), and administrating further edits to future iterations of stored curricular outcome datasets. COM1:create Data can either be keyed in …
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Objectives for Personal and Adaptive Learning The OPAL project was funded by the Principal’s e-learning Fund to develop tools and frameworks to support objective- and outcome-based teaching and learning in the MBChB and the BVM&S. The software, situated within the VLE, enables users to create and maintain learning outcomes and their relationships.
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Organising Open Educational Resources (OOER) There is already significant activity in the area of sharing resources in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine. This is typically on a sharing amongst limited discipline communities, around a particular area such as assessment and/or on a semi-commercial basis. The OOER project proposes to open up the process to a …
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Foot Risk Awareness and Management Education (FRAME) SDG (Scottish Diabetic Group) commissioned us to build a healthcare training website offering learning resources aimed at standardizing, across Scotland, the activity of diabetes foot screening. This is a broad based user group of GPs, nurses, care staff, etc, and the tool is essentially highlighting a simple and …
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Medical Education in 2 Europe MEDINE2, a new European Academic Network in Medical Education supported by the European Commission Directorate of Education and Culture was launched Autumn 2009. 93 partner institutions representing the breadth and scholarly traditions of European medical education are working together on 11 work packages. Work Packages MEDINE Lingua Mobility Toolkit Tuning …
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