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The Quiet Revolution. – the experience of introducing electronic marking at the University of Huddersfield H. Spilsbury Senior lecturer S.Batt Senior Lecturer. Aims of workshop. To share the experience of introducing electronic marking on a nurse education programme.
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The Quiet Revolution – the experience of introducing electronic marking at the University of Huddersfield H. Spilsbury Senior lecturer S.Batt Senior Lecturer
Aims of workshop • To share the experience of introducing electronic marking on a nurse education programme. • Reflect on the potential impact of these developments in health and social care practice/ service delivery.
Student experience Non benefits • Varied experience and ability. • Anxiety regarding IT use and plagiarism • Availability of academic/IT support Benefits • Accessibility to marks and feedback. • Reduced travel • Environmentally friendly/ cost reduction.
Academic workload Non- benefits • Anxiety • Time to learn • Time to manage • IT problems • Health and Safety issues • Benefits • Working flexibility • Module administration • Team work • Quality monitoring • Changes to assessment
IT support • Institutional purchase of software. • Availability of trained IT staff for support and trouble shooting • Upgrading and checking of software for home use.
Interactive exercise on originality reports • Detecting plagiarism?; • Only matches with what is in its database. • Detect paraphrasing?; • Lecturer vigilance; • Differentiate between poor scholarship and plagiarism?
Transferable Practice, Knowledge and Skills Students have to interface with IT equipment and software. IT skills are transferable to: • practice settings (NHS KSF, 2004). • RiO, electronic records, System 1, EMIS • knowledge attainment such as searching electronic resources for developing evidence based practice.
References • www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk • www.emis-online.com • (RiO) www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk • Agenda for Change Project Team(2004)The NHS Knowledge and Skills framework (NHS KSF) and the Development Review Process.. London: Department of Health