Health Sciences and Practice & Medicine Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine Higher Education Academy Subject Centres Karen Campbell Macmillan Lecturer in Cancer Nursing eLearning in Health 2011 conference collaboration, sharing and sustainability in the current environment The East of Scotland Haematology Nurse Group use of Virtual Classroom in the Provision of Continuous Professional Development Through an Online Lecture Series.

Objective Share my experience of developing continuous professional development with the use of the virtual classroom. –Differences in approach from the academic to CPD learning environment. –The process of choosing digital habitat. –Challenges –Opportunities

What did they want ? Continuous professional development –Model of the module –Not to replace face-to-face conferences –Enhance learning Expert Lectures Journal clubs Case reviews

Pedagogy – Frameworks Module- Community of Inquiry ( Garrison et al 2000) –Create engagement –Current clinical opinion –Classroom environment Online Lecture Series –Maximise dissemination –Maintain Interest –Novel –Independent Continuous Professional Development.

Pualsen (1993) The hexagon of Cooperative freedom.

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Process- Creating a Social Platform Community of Practice –Individual Learning Expert presenter Recordings – Lurkers –Cooperative learning Live participation in online lectures ability to ask questions –Collaborative learning Discussion boards Live Participation Education dissemination –Technology – distribution of Recordings & audio Edinburgh Napier Education Exchange Podbean Site - audio Vimeo – video Wenger, White & Smith (2009) Digital Habitats- stewarding technology for communities.

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Challenges Affordance of technology – purpose of activity –Nothing fits one purpose Confidentiality –Not with in the university system – locked away! –Participants –Expert speakers Time –Advertise –Encourage speakers –Edit recordings –Distribution

Maintaining a more personalised approach –European Oncology Society –CancerNursing.org Continuation of life long learning after attending university course. –Academic Continuity NHS colleagues trialling the use of the online classroom –Macmillan Nutritional Care for Cancer Patients Opportunities

Lessons Learned Do communities of practice work? –Sink or swim –Ownership To frightening –Speakers –Learners Legalities –JISC- Legal Skills & knowledge required –Better picture –Evidence based practice? Technology moving faster –Twitter – presence –Vimeo – mobile apps

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References Garrison D, Anderson T, and Archer W (2000) Critical Inquiry in a text-based environment: computer conferencing in higher education. The Internet and Higher education 2(2-3) Pualsen M,. F.,(1993) “The Hexagon Of Cooperative Freedom: A Distance Education Theory Attended to Computer Conferencing.” The DistanceEducation Online Symposium DEOSNEWS, 1993,. 3 (2) Cited freedom-for.html freedom-for.html Wenger, White & Smith (2009) Digital Habitats- stewarding technology for communities.

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