Transcript INTUTE
Sharing Learning Objects in Health Care Intute: Health and Life Sciences What is Intute? • • • A free national Internet service guiding users to useful Web resources for education and research Aimed at UK HE students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners Consortium of seven universities, partner institutions and external content providers (e.g. RCN and MIDIRS) What do we do at www.intute.ac.uk? • Subject specialists identify, index and describe websites that will be of interest to our target audience • Catalogue consists of e.g. major publications, practice guidelines, reports, journals, databases, learning materials (including RLOs) • Other services e.g. VTS tutorials Evaluating resources • • • • • • • Scope/audience Authority and reputation Comparison with similar sites Content Accuracy Currency Format Reviewing existing records • Regular and frequent link checks • Specific criteria for full reviews of different resource types Audience • Key target: – Students at undergraduate level – Academics/lecturers – Librarians • Other users: – Practitioners – Researchers – Public Evidence of use (with caution!) UK higher education 25% Non-UK Education 14% UK Further Education 14% Non-UK Other 10% UK Schools 9% UK Public Sector 9% UK Private Sector 7% UK Learned or Professional… 8% Other 2% 0% 20% 40% Evidence of use Publisher 6% Postgraduate 15% Admin 6% Library or Information Staff/learning resource Staff 7% e-Learning 6% Practioner 5% Consultant 4% Researcher 8% CPD 5% IT 4% Other 2% Lecturer or Teacher 9% Student 23% Re-use of Intute • Simple links • Embedding search box • RSS feeds – new resources, news, blog. • Creating reading lists – automatically updated. • 81% of HEIs Future changes • More emphasis on student audience (informed by user surveys) • Re-design of Intute’s website – look and ease of use • Approx half of Internet tutorials re-written – others planned for next year • Launch in July 2009 Useful links • www.intute.ac.uk • Evaluation guidelines http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlife sciences/policy.html • Integration http://www.intute.ac.uk/integration/ Any Questions? Jackie Wickham [email protected] Loraine Wojciechowicz [email protected]