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Enhancing Healthcare Education with Intute's Learning Resources

Discover a free service by Intute guiding UK HE students, educators, and researchers to valuable web resources in health and life sciences. Explore curated websites, publications, tutorials, and more. Get involved in evaluating and using these resources wisely!

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Enhancing Healthcare Education with Intute's Learning Resources

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  1. Sharing Learning Objects in Health Care Intute: Health and Life Sciences

  2. What is Intute? • A free national Internet service guiding users to useful Web resources for education and research • Aimed at UK HE students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners • Consortium of seven universities, partner institutions and external content providers (e.g. RCN and MIDIRS)

  3. What do we do at www.intute.ac.uk? • Subject specialists identify, index and describe websites that will be of interest to our target audience • Catalogue consists of e.g. major publications, practice guidelines, reports, journals, databases, learning materials (including RLOs) • Other services e.g. VTS tutorials

  4. Evaluating resources • Scope/audience • Authority and reputation • Comparison with similar sites • Content • Accuracy • Currency • Format

  5. Reviewing existing records • Regular and frequent link checks • Specific criteria for full reviews of different resource types

  6. Audience • Key target: • Students at undergraduate level • Academics/lecturers • Librarians • Other users: • Practitioners • Researchers • Public

  7. Evidence of use (with caution!)

  8. Evidence of use

  9. Re-use of Intute • Simple links • Embedding search box • RSS feeds – new resources, news, blog. • Creating reading lists – automatically updated. • 81% of HEIs

  10. Future changes • More emphasis on student audience (informed by user surveys) • Re-design of Intute’s website – look and ease of use • Approx half of Internet tutorials re-written – others planned for next year • Launch in July 2009

  11. Useful links • www.intute.ac.uk • Evaluation guidelines - http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/policy.html • Integration - http://www.intute.ac.uk/integration/

  12. Any Questions? Jackie Wickham Jacqueline.wickham@nottingham.ac.uk Loraine Wojciechowicz Loraine.wojciechowciz@nottingham.ac.uk

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