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Developing Resources: involving mental health service users and carers. Tarsem Singh Cooner Associate Director Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health The University of Birmingham. Overview. Learners – target audience E-learning development drivers Design and development
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Developing Resources: involving mental health service users and carers Tarsem Singh CoonerAssociate DirectorCentre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health The University of Birmingham
Overview • Learners – target audience • E-learning development drivers • Design and development • Drivers and barriers for re-use
Learners – target audience • Target audience pre and post qualified:Psychologists, Social Workers, Nurses, GPs, Psychiatrists, Neuroscientists, Teachers, Public Policy Planners, Mental Health Service User/Carer Trainers, Youth Workers etc... • Aim to promote interdisciplinary mental health practice between related disciplines.
E-learning Development Drivers • Overcome traditional barriers to interdisciplinary teaching and learning of time and space • Promoting deeper learning outcomes through the processes of enquiry-based learning • Provide Mental Health Service Users and Carers with an equal voice in training professionals • Developing collaborative learning opportunities between disciplines
Design and Development Process • High End Developments – facilities Reusable Learning Object Specification V2.3 Team effort to produce RLO
Design and Development Process - Community • Low Tech – High Quality - Granularity • The Centre’s definition of the term 'interdisciplinary' is one which equally values service user and carer expertise alongside that of mental health professionals. • Learning from the experiences of service users and carers to promote good practice • Involve service users and carers in the curriculum development process
Design and Development Process - Community • Requirements:laptop, microphone, free software, training
Design and Development Process - Community • Requirements:laptop, microphone, free software, training • Preparation – project funding, service user/carer involvement, focus, time limit, originality, triggering event, stimulus, reuse. • Impact of Medication: Click here to access Web based exampleHow could this example trigger debate within your interdisciplinary learning group?
Drivers, Barriers for Reuse • Technical – lack of Web 2.0 type functionality • Permissions from service users and carers • Lack of learning design framework creates barrier to reuse. • Driver for reuse is the development and adoption of a learning design framework
Designing for Enquiry-based Blended Learning Framework Based on Garrison and Vaughan’s (2008) Community of Inquiry frameworkGarrison and Vaughan (2008) Blended learning in Higher education: frameworks, principles and guidelines. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Further Information www.ceimh.bham.ac.uk/downloads/ListofResources.shtml • Tarsem Singh Cooner • t.s.cooner@bham.ac.uk