Trust has been found to be key aspect when seeking support, but the concept seems to incorporate many different individual aspects that need further investigation. Theory or approach: Personal learning networks / aggregated trustworthiness (perceived credibility) = social validation + authority and trustee + profiles. Main References: Cook, J., & Pachler, N. (2012). Online people Full Article…
User Story: Practice based learning using significant event analysis
In what situation? Learning trigger? Liz is a GP and presents a significant event at the regular practice learning meeting. The significant event is a patient (an 83 year old lady) who suffers a broken hip following a fall at home. The patient was taking metformin for her diabetes and her daughter says that for Full Article…
Reflect App – recording ideas and learning
Reflect is an Android App for phones and tablets developed by students from Hochschule Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences) for Pontydysgu as part of the Learning Layers Project. The original idea came from talking with a doctor in the UK at a Learning layers workshop. He explained how little time he had to reflect Full Article…
User Story: Learning by practice team members – [Health Care context]
In what situation? Learning trigger? Mary is a practice nurse with a special interest in diabetes. She sees a 78 year old patient who is having a side effect that she thinks is due to a new tablet (medication) that the patient has just started taking for their diabetes. She is unsure if it is Full Article…
User Story: Learning from other’s experiences – [Health Care context]
In what situation? Learning trigger? John is a GP and has just seen a 52 year old patient in surgery. The patient has had diabetes for five years but the patient does not want to have any medication, despite his blood sugar continuing to rise. John is unsure whether to be more forceful in his Full Article…
User Story: Informal learning – handover of patient care [Health Care context]
In what situation? Learning trigger? Brian is a GP on a home visit to a 62 year old patient with diabetes who was discharged from hospital the previous day with an infected foot. The patient is on antibiotics but both the patient and Brian are unsure for how long the patient should be on antibiotics Full Article…
User Story: Cascading Learning [Health Care context]
In what situation? Learning trigger? Peter is a Doctor (GP) involved in running the Diabetic Clinic at Rowland Green Medical Centre (GP Practice). He and his practice partners know (from information sent to them by professional bodies, the NHS and from their reading of professional websites) that the NHS has produced new pathway (guidelines) on Full Article…
SOBOLEO – Semantic Social Bookmarking for Social Learning
SOBOLEO is a web-based system to help users share knowledge and experience more easily. Users collaboratively create a topic list and use this to tag people and web resources. This list is used as background knowledge during searches. SOBOLEO consists of 4 main parts: Search: A search engine that searches through tagged resources using the Full Article…
Tribal’s Mobile Learning for Professionals
Tribal Tribal is an education support services company that has provided market-leading learning and development solutions for over 20 years. We offer a unique combination of technology, service delivery and advisory solutions. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations across five continents. Our services include producing world-leading software, supporting adult learning and careers development and delivering school Full Article…
Bits and Pieces – Paper Prototyping
A design idea A tool to support keeping track of, developing and sharing information, learning and ideas arising from work – visualizing your learning process. Video Link: http://youtu.be/IrnpNE3JCzo Paper prototyping – Materials and resources Link: Bits and Pieces