telblogmin, 7 December 2018 It was a pleasure meeting colleagues at ASPiH last week and good to make new contacts, as well as attend so many interesting presentations and workshops. Dr Neil Ralph’skeynote speech was a great opportunity to share what the TEL Programme is about. In addition, we ran a workshop entitled “Show and TEL” which introduced the…
telblogmin, 6 December 2018 The Simulation-Based Education (SBE) Framework has now been successfully launched and we have been delighted by the responses received. We have received feedback from colleagues saying they will be using the framework to inform and support in the development of their own strategies and requests to join working groups in the move towards a strategy. We…
telblogmin, 5 February 2018 Learning Technologies is amongst the largest learning, education and skills exhibitions and conferences in the world and was attended by some of Health Education England’s Technology Enhanced Learning team. The conference ran from 31 January-1 February 2018 at Olympia in London. Research and Markets estimate that the learning technology industry will be worth an estimated…
telblogmin, 27 October 2017 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…
telblogmin, 26 October 2017 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…
telblogmin, 5 October 2017 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…
telblogmin, 2 October 2017 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…
telblogmin, 2 October 2017 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…
telblogmin, 22 September 2017 Once upon a time, when building a new product or service, such as a website, a client would issue a brief and the supplier would build it before releasing it to the user. Users would either love or loath the new solution and have very little say in the process. This is the “Kevin Costner…
telblogmin, 12 September 2017 Now that the work has been completed on the discovery phase of the Learning Solution, we have moved into the alpha phase. This means that we will be building a prototype of the service and testing it with potential users, as well as demonstrating that the service we want to build is viable. As part…
telblogmin, 18 August 2017 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…
telblogmin, 16 July 2017 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…
