University of Northampton, Transforming Interprofessional Groups through Educational Resources (TIGER)

  • Start date: 2010-09-01
  • End date: 2011-08-31
  • Status: complete

TIGER (Transforming Interprofessional Groups through Educational Resources), a consortium of The University of Northampton, The University of Leicester and De Montfort University (DMU) will innovate by collecting, developing and sharing reusable, customisable Open Educational Resources (OERs) designed for Interprofessional Education (IPE) in Health and Social Care between the three institutions, academics, their existing communities of practice, employers and the wider community in line with expressed sector requirements.

Aims and Objectives

The aims of the TIGER project are to dramatically benefit IPE in Health and Social Care and to solve ongoing challenges in cross-professional collaboration through the active pedagogical use of OERs by:

  • Identifying, collecting, developing and creating (where necessary) and releasing reusable, customisable OERs for IPE  in Health and Social Care to meet identified stakeholders’ needs.
  • Enabling wide, open access with appropriate open licenses and deployment between communities of practice, institutions, academics, teachers, students and tutors, learning designers and the learners themselves.
  • Testing the OERs in direct use with learners and professionals and providing guidelines and commentary for the worldwide IPE community.
  • Enabling wide access in work-based settings: TIGER OERs will be accessible and relevant for clinical teams to access in their place of work, in a way that is frequently currently impossible in clinical and community settings, for which there is a great and ongoing need.

Anticipated Oututs and Outcomes

  • Release existing and new teaching resources forming at least 360 credits. The OERs will be deposited in JorumOpen and in TIGER’s own repository with relevant RSS feeds linking them to aggregators and external repositories.
  • Provide a comprehensive TIGER website and evidence blog
  • Produce a TIGER pedagogical model that will enable other IPE and health and social care professionals to benefit.
  • Draft OER policy documents and guidelines for IPE community
  • Hold a minimum of three TIGER dissemination events involving project staff from each partner HEI.
  • Provide evidence of increased awareness of OERs and associated challenges by different stakeholder groups at each partner.
  • Provide reports to funders.

Key Focus Areas

TIGER OERs address the following priority areas:

  1. Specialist course material linked to the needs of particular sectors of employment (IPE and cognate disciplines
  2. Resources optimised for work-related learning.
  3. Distinctive, specialised subject, where a low volume of provision exists but needs are very high.

Organisations

Lead Institution:

  • The University of Northampton

Consortium Partners:

 

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