Health Education England’s (HEE) Technology Enhanced Learning team released the Learning Hub, with core functionality, at the end of May 2020 and would like to encourage more organisations with resources to share and contribute to the platform.
The Learning Hub is a new digital platform that provides easy access to a wide range of resources that are pertinent to education and training in health and care. Users can now contribute digital resources (including e-learning, video, audio, images, documents, web links, articles etc) and search and access the variety of learning resources that have been contributed by stakeholders and the health and care workforce.
Since the launch of the Learning Hub, stakeholders have contributed over 500 learning resources. Resources have been contributed by medical schools, operational delivery networks, training hubs, clinical commissioning groups, professional bodies, simulation networks, charities and social care organisations. These contributions offer and support a wide range of training delivery from videos and webinar recordings, e-learning, slide presentations, Q&A packs, simulation scripts, lesson plans to web links.
Some examples of contributed content:
Inheriting Genomic Information – Ed Miller Genomics Education Programme – https://learninghub.nhs.uk/Resource/728/Item
Dementia in care homes and COVID-19 – Social Care Institute for Excellence – https://learninghub.nhs.uk/Resource/359/Item
Supporting resources – COVID Presentations in our Paediatric Population – NW London CCG – https://learninghub.nhs.uk/Resource/700/Item.
Dr Neil Ralph, Head of Technology Enhanced Learning at HEE, said: “We have been pleased with the initial volume of contributed resources to the recently launched Learning Hub and would like to encourage even more organisations to consider sharing their resources so colleagues across the health and care sector can benefit from being able to access them. The resources shared on the Learning Hub play a pivotal role in its success, in its vision for collaboration and supporting learners.”
Guidance is available to support stakeholders who are contributing resources to ensure good quality accompanying data, optimising the resource information and searchability in the Learning Hub
If your organisation has resources you wish to share and contribute to the platform please visit: https://learninghub.nhs.uk and select “Contribute a resource”. You can sign in to the Learning Hub either using your e-Learning for Healthcare Hub username and password or by creating an account on the Learning Hub and using those details.
If you would like to know more about this release of the Learning Hub follow @HEE_TEL on Twitter, read the blog and look out for the regular updates on new features being released.
Hello, this looks interesting. I’m trying to get clear in my mind the difference between this and some of our other platforms – does this mean?
e-learning for health – accredited on-line learning for individuals
HEE STAR – resources that HEE have developed that we want share
Learning Hub – anything that has been developed that we think might be of interest, so a list of useful resources for people with LD during the pandemic, information about remote -working, an initiative from a professional body…
I have some ideas about things to send you but want to make sure they go to the right place. And can something be on both the Learning Hub and HEE STAR?
Hi Sheila
Thanks for your message and interest in the Learning Hub. Your explanation of the difference between the Learning Hub and e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) is pretty accurate – the Learning Hub provides access to a wide range of different types of resources that have been contributed by the health and care workforce, whereas the e-LfH Hub provides e-learning resources that have been developed in partnership with Royal Colleges, professional bodies, the NHS, third sector etc. The two Hubs are very much complementary platforms.
There is no reason why you can’t add a resource to both the STAR and the Learning Hub – as we all have the same aim to share resources with as many people as possible to make a positive difference. Hope that helps.