Networking for Learning

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Networking for Learning

• Overview of NHS Education for Scotland
• Knowledge Services

NHS Scotland Event 24th June 2008
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If you have knowledge, let others light their
candles with it

• Winston Churchill

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NES Knowledge Services

• For
• Decision-making (clinical, managerial, shared)
• Collaboration
• Personal and professional development
• Empowerment staff and patients

• Supporting
• Self-directed learning
• Social learning
• Mandatory and curriculum-based learning

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Learning through networks

• Technology networks for managing and sharing
  knowledge.
• Human networks
• (Managed Knowledge Networks)
• Human relations, conversation and eliciting tacit
  knowledge.
• Organisational networks
• Knowledge-sharing partnerships

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www.elib.scot.nhs.uk
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E-Library as Technology Network

• Networking/integrating technology to enable
  access to published knowledge base from providers
  in NHS, HE, voluntary sector etc.
• 12 million records
• 5000 ejournals
• 5000 eBooks
• Evaluated guidelines, evidence overviews,
  articles, patient information, websites, etc.
• Keeping up to Date
• Training and Development
• Personalisation

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E-Library as Technology Network

• Sharing knowledge across boundaries
• Disciplines
• Sectors
• Organisations
• Clinical / Non-clinical
• Professional/ Patient

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Managed Knowledge Networks (MKNs)

• Networks of people
• Networks of practice
• Comprise multiple communities of practice
• Access, share, evaluate, apply knowledge in
  common area of endeavour.
• Bring together explicit (published) and tacit
  (personal) knowledge.
• Transform knowledge into practice
• Drive innovation and culture change

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Examples

• MKNs
• Cancer
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Mental Health
• Stroke
• Diabetes
• Healthcare Associated Infections
• Equality in Health
• Information Governance
• Remote and Rural Care
• Self-Management and Rehabilitation
• NMAHP eHealth

• Communities(c200)
• Care Pathway and Guideline Groups
• Oncology Pharmacists
• Heart Failure Nurses
• Community Mental Health Teams
• Stroke Nurses Forum
• Infection Control Managers
• Community Health Partnership Managers
• Community Hospitals and Intermediate Care Group
• Patient / Public Involvement Groups
• NMAHP eHealth Leads

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Practical Support for MKNs

• Resources and Tools
• Portals tailored collections of resources and
  services
• Shared Space
• Social networking tools My Community Space

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www.clinicaldecisions.scot.nhs.uk
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www.learningcentre.scot.nhs.uk
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www.enablinghealth.scot.nhs.uk
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Shared Space

• Collaborative workspace
• Community Learning Environment
• Community website
• Supports Knowledge Networks and communities of
  practice
• Facilitates sharing of resources and experience.
• Supports health and social care staff, patients
  and public, in working and learning together.

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Navigation
Go back to e-Library
Resources new -full list -search
Events and courses
Discussions
Contacts -browse -search
News
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My Community Space

• Personal and community webspace
• Store, organise and share information and
  learning resources
• Connect with colleagues with shared interests and
  experience
• Maintain and update personal profile
• Social networking / Web 2.0 approach

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Information Literacy
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
teach a man to fish and you feed him for a
lifetime. Confucius
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www.infoliteracy.scot.nhs.uk
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Sharing knowledge across organisations
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Social Services Knowledge Scotland www.ssks.org.uk
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E-Learning Repository

• New service to support personal and
  organisational learning

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Aims

• Provide an extensible search and discovery
  platform for eLearning objects held both within
  the repository and at external locations
• Identify, quality assure, manage and classify
  eLearning objects including KSF as organising
  system
• Integrate with NES Knowledge Services
  architecture be accessible via NHS Scotland
  e-Library
• Facilitate sharing of eLearning objects by
  individuals and organisations across VLEs /
  LMSs in NHS and potentially beyond

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Progress to date

• Contract awarded Intralibrary from Intrallect
• Set-up phase 1 to be completed by end of July
• Pilots August to November

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Summing up

• Learning through networks
• Technology
• People skills, culture
• Organisations skills, culture