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Learning Objects by Subject

The School, on its own and in collaboration with external projects, is developing, and has already developed, many Learning Objects for use by teaching staff and students. View these objects by subject below.

Anatomy

  • Liver Anatomy
    Introduction to the external and internal anatomy of the liver.
  • Respiratory ventilation: anatomy and mechanics
    Presents the purpose of ventilation, the anatomical parts involved, and the muscular activity that enables ventilation to take place at rest.
  • Structures of the brain
    This learning resource allows the learner to label a diagram of the brain and is aimed at identification of the major areas of the brain (cerebrum, cerebellum, medulla, pons, midbrain, thalamus, hyporthalamus and pituitary gland). Once correctly labelled, the learner can access information about these structures. Additional interactions allow the learner to explore the diagram to discover the structures for themselves, whilst an MCQ allows them to test their knowledge.
 

Biological Processes

  • Action of drugs that target carriers
    This learning resource introduces carriers as a target for drug action and describes how carriers function and how drugs utilise these carriers.
  • Bacteria and viruses compared
    Introduces and compares the structural components associated with bacteria and viruses by allowing users to "build" their own.
  • Cell Division
    To identify the importance of cell division and briefly describe mitosis and meiosis.
  • Clinical impact of changes in drug clearance
    Examines some of the factors which affect total body clearance of a drug and how this, in turn, influences a drug's clinical impact.
  • Concentration gradients
    This RLO describes the concept of concentration gradients in biological systems through analogy with gradients found in everyday life, and outlines passive and active transport across cell membranes.
  • Elements that make up the human body
    Introducing the periodic table of elements, and identifying the major elements involved in the human body and their roles
  • Events of the Menstrual Cycle
    This RLO describes the timing and main events for each of the phases of the menstrual cycle. It concentrates on the main events occurring in the ovary and uterine wall during these phases
  • Exploring the synapse
    Describe the events during the transmission of an impulse across a synapse
  • Glomerular Filtration Pressure
    The RLO deals with the opposing forces within the glomerulus and the Bowmans capsule which together create the glomerular filtration pressure. The RLO builds on the Starlings Forces RLO by the same author and is intended to form the basis for a future RLO on glomerular filtration rate. This RLO was developed jointly with De Montfort University.
  • Heart Failure
    This RLO deals with the pathophysiology of heart failure, drug treatments, and nursing management.
  • Homeostasis
    Introduction to the principles of homeostasis.
  • How ligand-gated ion channel receptors communicate messages
    This learning object explains how ligand-gated channel receptors signal messages.
  • Inflammatory response
    Describes the inflammatory response - a series of local cellular and vascular responses which are triggered when the body is injured or invaded by micro-organisms or antigen.
  • Introducing Metabolism
    This learning resource looks at anabolic and catabolic metabolism. It describes the metabolic fate of energy substrates within the body and the relationships between subunits, storage and breakdown.
  • Introduction to drug clearance
    Provides a definition of clearance and a basic explanation of the processes
  • Introduction to Nociception
    This learning object helps the learner to describe the main components of the nociceptive pathways.
  • Kidney Anatomy
    Introduction to the external and internal anatomy of the kidney.
  • Kidney Physiology
    Introduction to the physiology of the kidney, examining the processes by which the kidneys filter blood, control body pH and eliminate the waste products of metabolism from the body.
  • Liver Anatomy
    Introduction to the external and internal anatomy of the liver.
  • Liver Physiology
    Introduction to the physiology of the liver, examining its role in filtering blood, metabolism, nutrient extraction and homeostasis.
  • Meiosis: an interactive demonstration
    This is an interactive demonstration of the stages of cell mitosis. You can view the whole process in one continuous animation, or view the invidual stages one by one. This learning object is part of the Cell Division RLO, where it appears as a popup on the Meiosis page. There's also an interactive demonstration of Mitosis available.
  • Mitosis: an interactive demonstration
    This is an interactive demonstration of the stages of cell mitosis. You can view the whole process in one continuous animation, or view the invidual stages one by one. This learning object is part of the Cell Division RLO, where it appears as a popup on the Mitosis page. There's also a demonstration of Meiosis available.
  • Osmosis and Diffusion
    Explaining the difference between the processes of diffusion and osmosis, and introducing the concepts of concentration gradients and tonicity.
  • Pain Pathways ULO
    This learning object describes the main components of the nociceptive pathways.
  • Perception of pain
    The Perception of pain learning resource is one of a series of objects which have been developed for the Pain pathways project.
  • Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic influences of aminoglycoside dosing
    Examines how the absorbtion and distribution of aminoglycosides within the body affects the dosing regimens used.
  • Plasma Proteins and Drug Distribution
    Examing the role of plasma proteins in the blood in the distribution and elimination of drugs in the body.
  • Receptor location and the speed of drug action
    To explain how cellular receptor location influences the speed of drug action.
  • Respiratory ventilation: anatomy and mechanics
    Presents the purpose of ventilation, the anatomical parts involved, and the muscular activity that enables ventilation to take place at rest.
  • Safer Urinary Catheter Care
    This resource is designed to help healthcare professionals understand the dangers associated with urinary catheters and the correct ways in which to care for them to help prevent infection. The resource uses video clips and interactive elements as well as text.
  • Starling's Forces
    An examination of the roles of hydrostatic and oncotic pressure in movement of fluid and gases across the capillary wall.
  • The Kidneys and Drug Excretion
    The role of the kidneys in the excretion of drugs.
  • The Liver and drug metabolism
    The role of the liver in the metabolism of drugs.
  • Tissue Fluid Formation
    This RLO describes the distribution of fluids within the body and describes the forces involved in the circulation of fluids between the capillary and tissue compartments.
  • Transduction of pain
    The Transduction of pain learning resource is part of a series of objects being developed for the nociceptive pathways project.
  • Transmission of pain
    The Transmission of pain learning resource is part of a series of objects being developed for the nociceptive pathways project.
  • Volume of distribution
    Explains the pharmacological concept of Volume of Distribution, and how it is calculated.
 

Chemistry

 

Clinical Skills

  • BMI measurement
    This resource will explore the process of BMI measurement within healthcare, the different methods available to calculate BMI and some of the issues that influence its measurement.
  • Case note review using the Trigger Tool
    To familiarise potential users of the Trigger Tool with identifying triggers and assigning levels of harm
  • Chronic wound assessment
    This learning object outlines the principles of wound assessment and healing.
  • Clean your hands
    The University of Nottingham has produced a DVD aimed at patients, healthcare workers and hospital visitors, which is being shown on plasma screens and bedside televisions in wards. The video outlines the importance of hand hygiene, and the practical steps that everyone can take to reduce the chances of damaging infections, such as MRSA and clostridium dificile, being passed to patients by healthcare workers and visitors. It's aimed at patients, healthcare workers and hospital visitors, and will also be useful for health care students in preparation for practice.
  • Components of a Respiratory Assessment
    This rlo identifies the components of a respiratory assessment and briefly describe what happens at each stage in the assessment.
  • Doctor/Patient Relations
    Understanding various facets of the doctor-patient relationship and factors that facilitate and impede the success of that relationship. The RLO uses video clips to illustrate four styles of doctor-patient scenarios.
  • Improving patient safety: SBAR
    This RLO introduces and demonstrates how to use an approved framework for clinical communication known as SBAR
  • Intracellular and Extracellular buffers
    This RLO outlines the main intracellular and extracellular buffering systems within the body and shows how trhe carbonic acid buffering system can be assessed
  • Intramuscular injection by the Z track technique
    Intramuscular injection by the Z track technique explains and demonstrates a safe technique for administering an intra-muscular injection.
  • Intramuscular Injection sites (for adults)
    Intramuscular Injection sites (for adults) is designed to help you correctly identify which muscles may be used to safely administer intramuscular injections.
  • Intramuscular injections
    This learning resource is an example of a Umbrella learning object(ULO), and contains a series of learning objects developed by the Clinical Skills - Injections mini-project team based here at the University of Nottingham.
  • Measuring peak flow
    This learning resource explains how to use peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) to measure respiratory function.
  • Moral Theories
 

E-Learning

  • Planning for improvement
    This learning resource focuses on identification of potential improvements, by focusing on the patient journey. It outlines the need to understand the system and processes involved and challenges the learners to think about the potential impact of any change and all of the people it is likely to affect.
 

EBP

 

Education 

  • Should Sarah smack her child?
    This RLO explores the ethical dimension and different views surrounding the use of mild smacking as a means of punishment. Should Sarah smack her child? This RLO introduces you to a range of stakeholders with differing viewpoints and allows you to record your own responses to their opinions.
  • Understanding Nursing within the UK
    This RLO provides an overview of nursing education and career pathways in the UK, including an introduction to the main nursing roles.
 

Healthcare (General)

  • Alcohol as a public health issue
    This learning resource will increase your knowledge and understanding of how alcohol impacts on public health in a physical, psychological and social way.
  • Alcohol Identification and Brief Advice
    This learning resource introduces the concept of IBA (Identification and Brief Advice) and demonstrates the importance of communication skills and an informal approach when using AUDIT and delivering brief advice.
  • Case note review using the Trigger Tool
    To familiarise potential users of the Trigger Tool with identifying triggers and assigning levels of harm
  • Critical Reflection
    This resource is aimed primarily at students in healthcare practice to get them to reflect on their experiences and practice. The package explores the meaning and process of critical reflection, described by one author as "the process of looking back on what has been done and pondering on it and learning lessons from what did or did not work". The package has sections on areas such as Reflective Models (Gibbs, Johns, Driscoll), Self-assessment Tools, Practical Skills, and many other topics.
  • Food Hygiene
    This learning package is aimed at health care professionals whose role involves them in the preparation or delivery of food in a health care setting. The package will explore: The professional role in relation to food delivery, types of food contamination and their prevention, preventing the growth of microorganisms in or around food, safe storage and preparation of food in the health care setting and destroying microorganisms in and around food.
  • Gateways to health
    A collection of 13 videos (Real Video format) with people talking about their chronic health problems:
  • Informed consent
 

Healthy Living

  • Alcohol as a public health issue
    This learning resource will increase your knowledge and understanding of how alcohol impacts on public health in a physical, psychological and social way.
  • Alcohol Identification and Brief Advice
    This learning resource introduces the concept of IBA (Identification and Brief Advice) and demonstrates the importance of communication skills and an informal approach when using AUDIT and delivering brief advice.
  • Keeping physically active
    This RLO describes practical measures to build exercise into your daily routine. Part of the PAVE (Physical Activity Virtual Education) project.
  • Measurement and identification of levels of alcohol consumption
    This learning resource will increase knowledge and understanding of how alcohol is measured and how levels of alcohol consumption can be quantified using an identification tool.
  • Physical activity and health
    This RLO outlines the importance physical and mental health benefits to the individual of physical exercise. The second RLO in this series describes practical measures to build exercise into your daily routine. Part of the PAVE (Physical Activity Virtual Education) project.
  • Social class
    Understanding the concept of social class, how it is modelled and some of the healthcare problems attached
  • The Black Report and Inequalities in Health
    This RLO examines the findings and implications of the Black Repor. This was a 1980 document published by the the Department of Health and Social Security in the United Kingdom, which was the report of the expert committee into health inequality chaired by Sir Douglas Black. It was demonstrated that although overall health had improved since the introduction of the welfare state, there were widespread health inequalities.
 

Improvement

  • Case note review using the Trigger Tool
    To familiarise potential users of the Trigger Tool with identifying triggers and assigning levels of harm
  • Critical Reflection
    This resource is aimed primarily at students in healthcare practice to get them to reflect on their experiences and practice. The package explores the meaning and process of critical reflection, described by one author as "the process of looking back on what has been done and pondering on it and learning lessons from what did or did not work". The package has sections on areas such as Reflective Models (Gibbs, Johns, Driscoll), Self-assessment Tools, Practical Skills, and many other topics.
  • Improving Care
    This learning resource introduces the concept of improvement within health and social care. It shows how improvement may be initiated and evaluated. It also explains how improvement is everyone's concern, with small changes having the potential for large impact.
  • Improving your practice
    This learning resource will help you to look at your own practice, to identify areas for improvement. It focuses on the importance of getting the measurement strategy right in order to show any effects of your improvement ideas. It also highlights how improving practice relates to your professional development and the knowledge and skills framework.
  • Planning for improvement
    This learning resource focuses on identification of potential improvements, by focusing on the patient journey. It outlines the need to understand the system and processes involved and challenges the learners to think about the potential impact of any change and all of the people it is likely to affect.
  • Understanding the Trigger Tool
    To give an overview of how and why the Trigger Tool is used to measure the rate of harm within a healthcare organisation
 

Learning Disabilities

  • Baby first!
    A resource designed to help healthcare professionals to support families over the first important year of life when their baby has an intellectual disability.
  • Dyma Steve
    Welsh Translation of "This is Steve" Mae'r adnodd dysgu ailddefnyddiadwy hwn yn dangos y math o wybodaeth y gallai rhywun ag anabledd dysgu fod eisiau i ofalwyr feddu arni cyn dod i ofalu amdanynt. Mae wedi ei ysgrifennu o safbwynt y defnyddiwr gwasanaeth gyda chymorth nyrs dan hyfforddiant. Mae'r adnodd hwn a mwy ar gael ar "Y Porth", sef llwyfan e-ddysgu cydweithredol y sector addysg uwch cyfrwng Cymraeg http://www.porth.ac.uk/cy/
  • Fy nhŷ i, fy hawliau i
    Welsh translation of: My House, My Rights. Mae'r pecyn hwn yn mynd ar daith ryngweithiol o amgylch tŷ unigolyn gydag anableddau dysgu. Ym mhob ystafell caiff y dysgwr ei herio gan rai o'r ffyrdd y caiff hawliau unigolion ag anableddau dysgu eu diystyru gan ddarparwyr gofal iechyd yn eu cartrefi eu hunain. Mae'r adnodd hwn a mwy ar gael ar "Y Porth", sef llwyfan e-ddysgu cydweithredol y sector addysg uwch cyfrwng Cymraeg. http://www.porth.ac.uk/cy/
  • Gall rhywbeth bach wneud gwahaniaeth mawr
    Welsh translation of: Little things make a big difference. Mae'r adnodd dysgu ailddefnyddiadwy hwn yn seiliedig ar drafodaeth rhwng gweithiwr gofal iechyd a chleient gydag anableddau dysgu. Mae'n dangos pa mor bwysig yw hyd yn oed yr agweddau lleiaf ar gyfathrebu i greu trafodaeth gadarnhaol. Mae'r adnodd hwn a mwy ar gael ar "Y Porth", sef llwyfan e-ddysgu cydweithredol y sector addysg uwch cyfrwng Cymraeg http://www.porth.ac.uk/cy/
  • Hello My Name is Tom
    This resource gives an insight into the world of a young person with an Autistic Spectrum disorder (ASD). It concentrates on interaction with Tom, a young person with ASD, within the school environment. The RLO was created by a learning disability nursing student based on his interaction with a number of individuals with ASD. This RLO won the 2009 Fiona Law prize for student-led innovation awarded by the National Network of Learning Disability Nursing.
  • Little Things Make a Big Difference
    This RLO is based around an interaction between a healthcare professional and a client with learning disabilities. It shows how important even small aspects of communication are in formulating a positive interaction.
  • My House, My Rights
    This package takes an interactive journey through the house of an individual with learning disabilities. In each room the learner is challenged by some of the ways that the rights of individuals with LD are often disregarded by HCPs within their own homes.
  • Responses to Sexuality
    This RLO is based on a scenario which involves the expressions of sexuality by John, a man with learning disabilities. It looks at John's responses, views and feelings and compares them with those of his health care worker. It challenges the learner to review their own views to these issues.
  • This is Steve
    This RLO shows the sort of information that someone with a learning disability might want carers to know before they come to care for them. It is written from the perspective of a service user with the help of a student nurse.
  • Ymateb i fynegiant o rywioldeb1
    This is a Welsh translation of "Responses to Expressions of Sexuality." Mae'r adnodd dysgu ailddefnyddiadwy hwn yn seiliedig ar senario am y ffyrdd y mae John, dyn gydag anableddau dysgu, yn mynegi ei rywioldeb. Mae'n edrych ar ymateb, barn a theimladau John ac yn eu cymharu gydag ymateb, barn a theimladau ei weithiwr gofal iechyd. Mae'n herio'r dysgwr i ystyried ei farn ei hun am y materion hyn. Mae'r adnodd hwn a mwy ar gael ar "Y Porth", sef llwyfan e-ddysgu cydweithredol y sector addysg uwch cyfrwng Cymraeg. http://www.porth.ac.uk/cy/
 

Mental Health

  • Keeping physically active
    This RLO describes practical measures to build exercise into your daily routine. Part of the PAVE (Physical Activity Virtual Education) project.
 

Midwifery

  • Baby first!
    A resource designed to help healthcare professionals to support families over the first important year of life when their baby has an intellectual disability.
  • Midwife's abdominal examination in the antenatal period
    This RLO demonstrates how to perform the midwife's examination of the abdomen in the antenatal period. It includes video clips of an abdominal examination, and references to professional (NMC) and NICE guidelines where appropriate.
 

Pharmacology

 

Philosophy

 

Practice Learning and Clinical Skills

  • Aseptic Non-Touch Technique
    Introduces the concept of ANTT, used to prevent infection during clinical procedures; includes a video demonstration.
  • Critical Reflection
    This resource is aimed primarily at students in healthcare practice to get them to reflect on their experiences and practice. The package explores the meaning and process of critical reflection, described by one author as "the process of looking back on what has been done and pondering on it and learning lessons from what did or did not work". The package has sections on areas such as Reflective Models (Gibbs, Johns, Driscoll), Self-assessment Tools, Practical Skills, and many other topics.
  • Doctor/Patient Relations
    Understanding various facets of the doctor-patient relationship and factors that facilitate and impede the success of that relationship. The RLO uses video clips to illustrate four styles of doctor-patient scenarios.
  • Dyslexia and Workplace Learning
    How dyslexia affects student nurses on placement and their mentors. Includes guidelines and strategies for mentors and students.
  • Glove use
    Explains the appropriate use of gloves in a clinical environment
  • Hand Hygiene
    This learning object demonstrates, through streaming video clips, practical hand hygiene techniques for infection control in healthcare settings. There are also interactive self-assessment quizzes
  • Home hazards
    Presents a reconstructed scene of a home visited by a health visitor; the student seeks areas of concern identified by the health visitor.
  • Home Visiting
    This RLO outlines the significance of home visiting as an essential component in a programme of formal health care, and contains realistic exercises based on home interiors.
  • Improving patient safety: SBAR
    This RLO introduces and demonstrates how to use an approved framework for clinical communication known as SBAR
  • Involving service users and carers in your teaching
 

Research Methods

  • Asking the right question
    This RLO outlines why asking the right question can help in the search for evidence, and explains how to construct good questions using the PICO technique.
  • Cohort and case-controlled studies
    This RLO explains what are case-control and cohort studies, and outlines the difference between them.
  • Cross-tabular data
    This RLO examines how survey or experimental data can be converted to cross tabular data, and the steps involved in this process. It also examines how to present it in a way that is useful for recognising patterns and representing graphically.
  • Designing a Questionnaire
    This RLO introduces good practice in questionnaire design, step by step.
  • Levels of Measurement
    To understand the different levels of measurement and the arithmetic operations that can be performed on them
  • Meta-analysis
    This RLO provides an introduction to the basic concepts of meta-analysis, which is an important and valuable tool for summarising data from multiple studies.
  • Qualitative and quantitative research
    Outlining the distinction between qualitative and quantitative methods of doing research.
  • Qualitative Data Analysis
    The aim of this Reusable Learning Object (RLO) is to give you an idea of how qualitative data analysis is done. It's aimed at students studying evidence based practice or research methods, with a basic understanding of what qualitative research is.
  • Types of qualitative research
    This RLO outlines the variety of types of qualitative research that there are. It's aimed primarily at students studying evidence based practice and research methods.
  • What is a randomised controlled trial?
    This RLO outlines how Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) work.
  • What is Evidence Based Practice?
    This RLO introduces the concept of evidence based practice and explains, in outline, how evidence based practice is done.
  • Why critique research?
    Why published research needs to be appraised by readers.
 

Science Basics

  • Bacteria and viruses compared
    Introduces and compares the structural components associated with bacteria and viruses by allowing users to "build" their own.
  • Inflammatory response
    Describes the inflammatory response - a series of local cellular and vascular responses which are triggered when the body is injured or invaded by micro-organisms or antigen.
  • Intracellular and Extracellular buffers
    This RLO outlines the main intracellular and extracellular buffering systems within the body and shows how trhe carbonic acid buffering system can be assessed
  • Introduction to drug clearance
    Provides a definition of clearance and a basic explanation of the processes
  • Pressure
    Introducing basic concepts of physical pressure, with particular reference to the role of pressure in healthcare situations.
  • Prokaryotes and eukaryotes
    This RLO describes the characteristics of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.
  • SI Units and calculating unit changes
    To identify what SI units are, when they are used, and how to calculate unit changes.
  • Structure of the Atom
    An introduction to basic atomic structure
 

Social Work

  • Childhood obesity
    Examines the issue of childhood obesity from the perspectives of the biomedical, behavioural and socio-economic models of health
  • Social class
    Understanding the concept of social class, how it is modelled and some of the healthcare problems attached
  • The Black Report and Inequalities in Health
    This RLO examines the findings and implications of the Black Repor. This was a 1980 document published by the the Department of Health and Social Security in the United Kingdom, which was the report of the expert committee into health inequality chaired by Sir Douglas Black. It was demonstrated that although overall health had improved since the introduction of the welfare state, there were widespread health inequalities.
 

Sociology

  • Childhood obesity
    Examines the issue of childhood obesity from the perspectives of the biomedical, behavioural and socio-economic models of health
  • International classification of function
    International Classification of Function (ICF) is akin to the International Classification of Disease (ICD) used to classify diseases and mortality, but concentrates on health and combines psychosocial as well as biological theory. The two are interrelated and complimentary.
  • Parsons' Sick Role
    The concept, sources, criticisms and strengths of the sick role as developed by Talcott Parsons.
  • Should Sarah smack her child?
    This RLO explores the ethical dimension and different views surrounding the use of mild smacking as a means of punishment. Should Sarah smack her child? This RLO introduces you to a range of stakeholders with differing viewpoints and allows you to record your own responses to their opinions.
  • Social class
    Understanding the concept of social class, how it is modelled and some of the healthcare problems attached
  • The Black Report and Inequalities in Health
    This RLO examines the findings and implications of the Black Repor. This was a 1980 document published by the the Department of Health and Social Security in the United Kingdom, which was the report of the expert committee into health inequality chaired by Sir Douglas Black. It was demonstrated that although overall health had improved since the introduction of the welfare state, there were widespread health inequalities.
 

Statistics

  • Birth Prevalence
    This RLO explores the concept of birth prevalence, a special type of prevalence defined as "the percentage of a given population who have a particular disease in a given population at a given point in time or over a particular time period."
  • Cross-tabular data
    This RLO examines how survey or experimental data can be converted to cross tabular data, and the steps involved in this process. It also examines how to present it in a way that is useful for recognising patterns and representing graphically.
  • Descriptive statistics for interval and ratio scale data
    Describing the use of measures of central tendency - mean, mode, median - and dispersion - range, Standard Deviation.
  • Incidence
    An explanation of incidence as the measurement of disease frequency
  • Levels of Measurement
    To understand the different levels of measurement and the arithmetic operations that can be performed on them
  • Levels of Measurement: what you can and can't do arithmetically
    An explanation of the statistical operations that can be performed on the different levels of measurement.
  • Penetrance
    This resource examines the concept of penetrance, which is the probability that a person carrying a disease-associated genotype will develop the disease within a given time period.
  • Power and sample size
    An introduction to type I and type II errors with an interactive simulation to show the dynamic effects of variables on the power of the study
  • Prevalence
    An explanation of prevalence as the measurement of a situation at one time
  • Probability associated with inferential statistics
    An introduction to probability, and the probability of sample errors affecting research results.
  • Relationship between incidence and prevalence
    An explanation of the relationship between incidence and prevalence with an interactive example
 

Study Skills

  • Advanced literature searching
    How to construct literature search enquiries using the thesaurus, focus or explode your search, use the search term taxonomy to refine your search and combine these methods into an advance search protocol.
  • Critical Reflection
    This resource is aimed primarily at students in healthcare practice to get them to reflect on their experiences and practice. The package explores the meaning and process of critical reflection, described by one author as "the process of looking back on what has been done and pondering on it and learning lessons from what did or did not work". The package has sections on areas such as Reflective Models (Gibbs, Johns, Driscoll), Self-assessment Tools, Practical Skills, and many other topics.
  • Educational Journals
    This learning object introduces educational journals and describes three types: Academic, Professional and Subject. The examples used are drawn from the area of social work, but the concepts are cross-discipline.
  • How to conduct a literature search
    Practical examples of searching databases of journal articles (eg CINAHL, BNI), including screen movies of actual searches.
  • Introduction to portfolios and their uses
    To identify what a portfolio is, why they are used and to identify some pieces of material that may be used to support claims for learning and development.
  • Mentoring: Shaping practice
    Mentoring is an umbrella term which encompasses the activity of developing the learning of others. This RLO aims to support mentors develop and review their knowledge, understanding and skill base. It can also be used by students to develop their understanding of the mentoring role.
  • Referencing Books using Harvard
    This resource outlines the information that is required to accurately reference a book for the Harvard referencing scheme. It also outlines where that information can be found within a book.
  • Referencing Journals using Harvard
    This resources outlines the information that is required to accurately reference a journal article for the Harvard referencing scheme. It also outlines where that information can be found within a printed journal.
  • Referencing websites using Harvard
    This resource outlines the information that is required to accurately reference a website for the Harvard referencing scheme. It also outlines where that information can be found within a website.
  • Referencing your work with Harvard
    Introduction to the Harvard style of literature referencing, incorporating an interactive referencing tool for students.
  • Using databases to find journal articles
    An introduction to online databases of journals relevant to nurses (eg CINAHL, BNI).
  • What are Journals?
    This learning object introduces educational journals and describes three types: Academic, Professional and Subject. The examples used are drawn from the area of nursing, but the concepts are cross-discipline.
  • What is referencing?
    This RLO outlines the importance of referencing and how to refer to the work of others appropriately. Interactive tasks illustrate the range of materials that can be referenced and examples of plagiarism.
 

Veterinary Science

 

 

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