This is the second in a series of blog posts about my experience attending the Government Digital Service (GDS) Sprint 19 event in October 2019. Read “the beginning” blog which is dated 6 October 2019 In the afternoon there was a variety of breakout sessions on offer. I attended sessions on diversity and inclusion and…
Learning Hub
Our show and tell with NHSx
The Learning Hub will be a powerful new digital platform that will provide easy access to a wide range of education and training resources for the health and care workforce. It is being developed by Health Education England’s (HEE) national Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Programme. Earlier this month some of the Learning Hub’s service team…
Government Digital Service Sprint 19 event – the beginning
As product owner of the Learning Hub, I attended the Government Digital Service (GDS) Sprint 19 event last month in London. The aim of Sprint 19 was to bring together people working across government to learn more about how digital transformation is improving people’s lives. It also looked at the work GDS and digital teams…
User research – integral to development cycle
Keeping to the ‘user centric’ ethos of the Learning Hub is crucial for our design and development teams and that’s why our user research team has been busy over the last couple of months; sharing prototype screens with users, and ensuring that we hold firm to our promise of delivering a Learning Hub that everyone…
Learning Hub – how users are shaping its future
The Learning Hub’s Service team is making significant progress on the technical requirements for the platform’s functionality for the Beta launch, early in 2020. The Learning Hub will be a powerful new digital platform that will provide easy access to a wide range of education and training resources for the health and care workforce. It…
The Learning Hub – what will it look like?
The Learning Hub will be a powerful new digital platform that will provide easy access to a wide range of education and training resources for the health and care workforce. It is being developed by Health Education England’s (HEE) national Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Programme. The Learning Hub’s Service team is making significant progress on…
How do health and care learners use technology?
In Health Education England’s (HEE) Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) programme, we want to make sure everything we do gives the best possible learning outcomes for the health and care workforce, so they can provide the best possible care for patients. The best way to do this is to speak to our learners and find out…
How the Learning Hub will support your learning in early 2020
The Learning Hub will be a powerful new digital platform that will provide easy access to a wide range of education and training resources for the health and care workforce. It is being developed by Health Education England’s (HEE) national Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Programme. The Learning Hub will be launched in Beta* early in…
Registration – present and future progress
As part of the overall work to simplify our registration process, we have been looking at the different audience types that access the Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) Hub. Currently the e-LfH Hub has a diverse audience ranging from users working directly in the NHS, individuals providing social care, through to members…
Show and tells – We show you, you tell us
We have been running a series of show and tells to provide the opportunity to showcase certain screens, process(es) and key structural and conceptual designs of the Learning Hub. Show and tells form an integral part of agile practice and are a key principle to the Government Digital Services (GDS) standards. They enable insight to…
Taxonomies to support search
Taxonomies are the words which describe the relationship between objects in the world around us. In many respects, you could consider them our superpower! Without these taxonomies, the search and interoperability between systems we take for granted on our phones, tablets and laptops, simply wouldn’t work. This hidden layer of language is known as the…
User stories – a useful engagement tool
During the one-to-one engagement sessions with stakeholders we have been offering support for stakeholders on how they can gather user stories from their user base. User stories are a tool used in agile project methodology to capture product requirements to ensure we are building a service which meets users’ needs. These short, simple descriptions help…