Sharing learning objects in healthcare special interest group (SLOHSIG) will be holding its first meeting here at CIPeL on Monday 5th October 2009. Agenda to be confirmed soon.
The strategic aim of the special interest group (SIG) is to intergrate the vast number of teaching resources online into a ‘one stop shop’ for teachers and students of healthcare.
The SIG is primarily focused on the use and reuse of teaching and learning materials (learning objects) and it’s areas of interest will include:
development of learning objects for healthcare education
embedding learning objects in teaching practice
e-learning pedagogy
the use of digital repositories of learning objects
building communities of practice
facilitating content sharing

e-Learning in health: working together to enhance health, HEA Conference, University of Warwick, 16th -17th July.
CIPeL attended this event and presented a number of learning objects around health, interprofessional working and professional development. CIPeL learning objects may be used by health and social care lecturers to enhance teaching and learning in health and social care in Further and Higher Education. Participants were encouraged to access the Learning Object catalogue for ideas and inspiration.
The conference was well attended with Key notes by Professor David Dewhurst, (Director of Educational Information Services), Sir Alan Langlands (Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England) and Alan Ryan (National Programme Director, e-learning for Healthcare).
Poster Presentations - Poster prizes were sponsored by CIPeL.

At the core team meeting held on 19th May 2009, the CIPeL team commenced work on the structure and content for the CIPeL final report. The CIPeL team built upon the Input:Output model developed at the previous team meeting. Further time was invested into refining themes and identification of small sub-groups to develop content for the report. It was also decided to adopt an e-approach to the development of the final report. A wiki has been created for core team staff to contribute to the writing of the report. Core team staff can link to the wiki from this web site by using the blog roll on the left hand side of this page.

The latest edition of the CIPeL Newsletter is out. If you have not got your copy - here it is 5573-09-cipel-newsletter-v3.pdf

Congratulations to the RLO Cetl/Sonet team on a interesting and innovative conference.
Here is a brief overview:
NHS Evidence - Anne Weiss
NHS Repository - Bertha Yuen Man Low
Centre for Interprofessional e-learning CETL - Elinor Clarke
Centre for Interprofessional Mental Health Education CETL - Tarsem Singh Cooner
RLO CETL- Richard Windle & Mike Taylor
Clinical & Communication Skills CETL - Maggie Nicol & Natasha Perovic
Assessment & learning in Practice Settings (ALPS) CETL -Maria Park & Blayn Parkinson
JORUM - Nicola Siminson
INTUTE - Lorraine Wojciechowicz
The learning edge - Ian Watson
An interactive repository session and discussions followed the above presentations. Key recommendations and workshop results can be found at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/RLOconference
Click here to view CIPeL’s presentationLearning Objects in Health Care

Sharing Objects in Health Care 24th March 2009 at Nottingham University.
The CIPeL team will be attending the sharing learning objects conference to showcase a variety of exciting new Interprofessional learning objects.
Join us and see what CIPeL can contibute to your teaching and learning.
For more information and conference details http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/RLOconference

On Tuesday 20th January 2009 the CIPeL advisory and special interest group met at Coventry University. The purpose of the meeting was to showcase and debate some of the theory emerging from CIPeL’s work. Four exciting themes were presented, these were:
“Actual intended and user-augmented use of learning objects. Involving the community” Chris Pegler
“What makes a learning object interprofessional?” Elinor Clarke
“A discourse analysis of online interprofessional learning in the context of a module on inequalities in social care and health” Dr Lynn Clouder.
“What’s wrong with interprofessional learning?” Dr. Frances Gordon
Following the presentations participants discussed the theories raised, identified future discussion points and presenters were asked to consider future plans. See attached copy of Advisory Group PresentationsAdvisory Group Presentations

Do you have difficulty finding learning and teaching materials for Interprofessional education?
Would you find case studies that could be used for Interprofessional learning helpful?
Do you need an authentic patient journey to conribute to a module or course?
Have you a use for a vignette or story that can be used for inetrprofessional working?
If the any of your answers is yes, please go to our cipel repository to access the learning tools. You will find them at:http//curve.coventry.ac.uk

Web 2.0 technologies supporting health and life sciences at Coventry University
On Friday 21st November 2008, the CIPel was represented by Elinor Clarke at the HEA/UWE e-learning SIG E-learning in health and social care - current practice and directions conference. Elinor showcased a number of learning objects as well as reporting on the pilot study “IPE in Second Life”. Please see attached a copy of the presentation.

Please see below a selection of articles exploring attitudes to IPE:
Coster, S. et al. (2008) Interprofessional attitudes amongst undergraduate students in the health professions: A longitudinal questionnaire survey International Journal of Nursing Studies 45 1667-1681 [This paper makes reference to a ‘Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale’ (RIPLS), a ‘Professional Identity Scale’ and a ‘Contact index’.]

Fruber, C. et al. (2004) Interprofessional education in a midwifery curriculum: the learning through the exploration of the professional task project (LEAPT) Midwifery, 20, 358-366 [lists statements on team-working and interprofessional working; students are asked to rank the statements]

Pollard, K.C. & Miers, M.E. (2008) From students to professionals: Results of a longitudinal study of attitudes to pre-qualifying collaborative learning and working in health and social care in the UK Journal of Interprofessional Care 22(4) 399-416 [A study compares attitudes to interprofessional practice between one group which experienced IPE and another which educated on uniprofessional curricula]

Ward, J. et al. (2008) The Jefferson Scale of Attitudes toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration: A study with undergraduate nursing students Journal of interprofessional Care 22(4) 375-386 [reference the ‘Jefferson Scale of Attitudes toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration’ (JSAPNC) and the ‘Jefferson Scale of Empathy’ (JSE)]

Many thanks To Kathy Courtney for the above suggestions.