As a member of Health Education England’s Technology Enhanced Learning (HEE TEL) team, I had the great privilege of meeting with Clayton Hamilton of the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this month to learn about and discuss the cross-over between our work on technology enhanced learning in healthcare. The WHO is an executive department of…
Digital Literacy
Digital Literacy Education and Training Resources
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…
Workshopping digital capabilities with HEE staff
Work continues with engaging health and care staff with the HEE digital capabilities framework. The framework describes the digital literacy domain capabilities (see the domains below) at different levels. We’re working on ways of making the complex framework accessible and useful to everyone – ways in which people can begin to assess their own levels…
Chatting with nurses on Twitter
The HEE TEL programme recently guest hosted a chat on Twitter with the support of #WeCommunities, a format we’ve used before and really enjoyed. It’s an opportunity, in an hour, to engage with people on a specific topic and really learn from the insight, experience and expertise of people either from a specific community or…
Digital Practitioners and Bibi the PAT dog
Susan and Richard enjoyed a meeting this week with mHabitat in Leeds. As part of our work in digital literacy, we are keen to learn from and contribute to the work of others in the field. Mhabitat is hosted by Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and they work to support innovation in health…
Royal College of Nursing’s Education Forum International Conference and Exhibition 2017
Three of us from the Technology Enhanced Learning Programme were lucky enough to be able to attend the RCN conference, in Cardiff. This is a particularly important time in nursing as their standards are currently being reviewed. The current pre-registration standards for nursing were published in 2010 and since then there has been an unprecedented…
What is digital literacy?
We should probably more accurately say ‘what are digital literacies’ as digital literacy comprises a whole set of capabilities that go towards making up something that we might recognise as being digitally literate. This opening sentence hints at part of the problem around digital literacy. It’s a term bandied about but which either has no…