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Sharing Learning Objects in Health Care. Intute: Health and Life Sciences. 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
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Sharing Learning Objects in Health Care Intute: Health and Life Sciences
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)
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
Evaluating resources • Scope/audience • Authority and reputation • Comparison with similar sites • Content • Accuracy • Currency • Format
Reviewing existing records • Regular and frequent link checks • Specific criteria for full reviews of different resource types
Audience • Key target: • Students at undergraduate level • Academics/lecturers • Librarians • Other users: • Practitioners • Researchers • Public
Re-use of Intute • Simple links • Embedding search box • RSS feeds – new resources, news, blog. • Creating reading lists – automatically updated. • 81% of HEIs
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
Useful links • www.intute.ac.uk • Evaluation guidelines - http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/policy.html • Integration - http://www.intute.ac.uk/integration/
Any Questions? Jackie Wickham Jacqueline.wickham@nottingham.ac.uk Loraine Wojciechowicz Loraine.wojciechowciz@nottingham.ac.uk