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Centre for Inter-Professional e-Learning
Lead Institution: Coventry University, Collaborative Partners: Sheffield Hallam University, Director: Dr Lynn Clouder Inter Inter-professional learning lays a solid foundation for the collaborative practice and partnership working which underpins patient, client, service user and carer involvement within the modern health and social care systems. However, inter- professional education is also beset by notorious difficulties which make its large scale implementation problematic. The Centre for Inter Inter-Professional e-Learning (CIPeL) is a collaborative five year CETL between Coventry University and Sheffield Hallam University. It has been set up to develop and disseminate solutions to current barriers that hinder the advance and embedding of inter-professional learning in health and social care education. The Centre intends to act as a ‘beacon of best practice’ to promote inter-professional e-learning (IPeL) nationally and internationally. The CIPeL has various objectives to meet within its five year timeframe, including:
CIPeL has held successful launches at both institutions. The team has been building on innovations at Coventry and Sheffield Hallam Universities including web-based ‘patient journeys’, multimedia accounts of patient, client, service user and carer experience and online inter-professional action learning sets. CIPeL’s first secondments are now in place and development of inter-professional learning objects and activities are underway. The team has also completed its research and evaluation strategy, with two studentship posts commencing spring 2006: One focusing on IPeL approaches to teaching and learning, and the other on the staff experience. There are lots of developments taking place and the CIPeL welcomes interest from those wishing to engage with the team in developing learning objects, or who are interested in research projects. In 2006 and 2007 the CIPeL aims to run a series of workshops related to creating learning objects and will be circulating information of these in the newsletter. |
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