Developments in Teaching and Learning at Huddersfield

Dr Deborah Turner (left) and Wendy Smith (right), Senior Lecturers at the University of Huddersfield have been successful in their bid to receive funding to develop a project that will further enhance the teaching and learning experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels across a range of disciplines.

Debbie and Wendy were awarded £10,000 for the CORLO (Collection of Reusable Learning Objects) project. Reusable learning objects is the name given to small self contained, electronic based, learning resources that can be used and reused in a number of learning situations. The project plans to develop a process whereby case history information can be collected from patients with their consent. These details would then be divided into appropriate discrete ‘items’ of information which are placed on a database. This ‘real life’ information can then be drawn upon as necessary to enhance the learning experience for the student.

In any one learning scenario all of the case history information collected about a patient may be used, for example the full case history and management details of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis might be used to assist learning about high risk patients. Alternatively only certain elements of the case history information need to be employed, such as using a video of a practitioner’s interaction with the patient mentioned above to teach interviewing skills.

If anyone would like to know more about this project please contact Wendy Smith (w.smith@hud.ac.uk). This poster also has more information.