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| University of Cambridge > Universities' Collaboration in eLearning |
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Because content counts...UCeL was founded in March 2002 as a multi-institutional collective to collaboratively produce and share high quality interactive multimedia resources for health-professional education. Its six founding partners, the Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham, Manchester, East Anglia, Wolverhampton and Peninsula Medical School (Plymouth/Exeter) offer a wide range of subjects which UCeL resources support: medicine, nursing, pharmacy, behavioural sciences, sports science and health studies to name but a few. Multimedia resources have the power to engage and inform learners but they are extremely expensive to produce. The same subjects are being taught repeatedly to cohorts of students throughout the land so it's obvious that duplication is taking place. Meanwhile, teaching budgets are being inexorably squeezed. Whilst there is an understandable reluctance for lecturers to replace their lectures and courses in their entirety with online versions, there is an equally clear need voiced by educators that they would be able to put to good use the components that make up those courses – and the more interactive, high quality and fit-for-purpose these resources are, the better. So UCeL was founded to create these resources cost-effectively and collaboratively, in the form of reusable learning objects. But what exactly are reusable learning objects and why should anyone engaged in health-professional education want them? next >
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