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OER Phase 2 PORSCHE outcomes

General recommendations

The PORSCHE team recommends:

  • NeLR is aptly placed to take a more strategic role to enable content meeting good practice requirements to be shared locally within the NHS, and then shared more widely
  • MEDEV Risk-kit and the NHS eLearning Readiness toolkit should be utilised in NHS sector
  • Guidance on open content sharing needs to be at an appropriate level and adapted for the specific sector (i.e. guidance for HE needs to be adapted for the NHS sector)
  • NHS SHA e-Learning Content Clubs provide valuable communities of practice for exchanging and debating good practice and should be fostered
  • Incentives for sharing resources in the NHS are needed at a time when financial pressures on NHS organisations are increasing
  • NHS consent is adapted to explicitly include informed consent for use in teaching (in accordance with GMC guidelines) and consent is stored in the patient record. In consenting for teaching resources, reference to OER as similar in nature to releasing a publication and a requirement for Level 3 consent be highlighted
  • The NeLR upgrades from Athens Agent to allow more sophisticated authentication patterns
  • Continue to develop and facilitate links between repositories to encourage sharing of OER
  • NeLR upgrades from Athens Agent to allow more advanced authentication protocols
  • Development and encouragement to use a Consent Commons within the NHS
  • Training needs in the NHS with regards to digital professionalism have been identified and need to be addressed

Recommendations for the wider community

The PORSCHE team recommends:

  • Teaching staff are educated in the use of ‘openly licenced’ resources to facilitate uptake of and contribution to shared materials
  • A ‘search first, then create’ approach should be encouraged
  • Development of sample policy statements for use in NHS
  • Co-ordination and direction within the NHS on who leads with OER and open licensing policies is necessary
  • OER approaches are in-line with flexible and transparent education, guidance and training that is anticipated to be included and central to the DH Technology-enhanced Learning Framework
  • Future NHS strategy/frameworks embrace and champion an open sharing approach.
  • Marketing how OER provide value for money (reusable, customisable, none duplicated) in face of budget cuts
  • NeLR requires its version of Intralibrary to be updated to take advantage of OAI-PMH ingest which would enable a range of repositories to interface. A proof of concept has been successfully implemented in ACERep
  • Documentation of more case studies with which to highlight issues and barriers, and where successes occur
  • Review and analysis of national and international developments in OER in the context of health education
  • There is a need for ‘training the trainers’ to role model good practice, and dissemination of tools such as Risk-kit should be focussed on those responsible for education and training (such as the PG Certificate Clinical/Medical Education leads)
  • Personal individual ambition for content sharing should be negotiated, supported and rewarded by employers

Recommendations for the HEA/JISC

The PORSCHE team recommends:

  • Funding of more JISC/HEA cross NHS-HE sector projects in future to support the ~20% of all HE students learning and working in health and social care provision in the UK
  • Dissemination of open approaches and the Risk-kit in NHS environments
  • Considering funding some longer-term projects that can look more closely at embedding, and/or follow-up evaluation of the OER programme to assess value-for-money
  • An emphasis on influencing the processes for new content (as existing content has rarely been developed with the right awareness of copyright and consent)
  • Jorum develops an open API for search and deposit
  • NHS-HE connectivity and cross-sector sharing of ideas and content is continued
  • Methods to aid OER incorporated in curriculum delivery are continued
  • Jorum continues to engage closely with related projects and stakeholders. It should, where appropriate, engage at Executive Board level with OER projects to aid two-way mutual understanding
  • An updated and robust debate should be had on the viability of the business case for monetising content within NHS and HE markets to resolve and clarify tensions
  • Development of ‘take down’ technologies for ‘removing’ OER from public consumption
  • Establishment of JorumPlus or equivalent for sharing sensitive materials (medic-restrict)
  • Development of a Consent Commons (or similar) to hallmark content which has been collected ethically
  • Reward and recognition strategies are increased to promote engagement in OER
  • Mechanisms for tracking use of learning resources are developed

Outcome highlights

Several of our outcomes from the project and the final report are available to view here:

 
 
MEDEV, School of Medical Sciences Education Development,
Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, NE2 4HH

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