Helping staff within the health and care workforce develop the digital literacy capabilities needed to provide the very best care for those we care for is a key part of our work. With a workforce of over 2 million and levels of digital capability spanning a vast range, there’s a lot of work to be…
Month: October 2017
Emerging technologies in health
Introduction Keeping abreast of new and emerging tech forms part of the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) programme vision at Health Education England (HEE) so that we continue to train our staff to the highest standards, using contemporary pedagogy and tools proven to work. In this WeCommunities Twitter chat, we explored the opportunity, implications, and readiness…
Online collaboration tools for learning and teaching
This is the third in our series of blog posts on the way we have tested our assumptions around a national learning solution for health and care employees. We have been holding a series of ‘ideathons’ with health and care colleagues where we have presented ideas and concepts and got users to provide feedback on…
Six steps to sharing and collaboration success?
This is the second in our series of blog posts on the way we have tested our assumptions around a national learning solution for health and care employees. At the first, of two, Health Education England learning technology ‘Ideathon’ users from across the UK were gathered to test a number of concepts to understand how…
Taxonomies Showcase
In our last TEL blog post on the subject of taxonomies, we explained the importance of taxonomies and how they power many of the websites we all use every day. Taxonomies are our superpower and without them, we would struggle to find much of the information we take for granted when using Google, Bing or…