Involving service users and carers in your teaching

About this package

Involving service users and carers in your teaching was developed by the Service User & Carer Advisory Group in the School of Nursing, Midwifery & Physiotherapy at the University of Nottingham. Content was developed by Joan Cook, Roni Anthony and Ian Truman, in collaboration with colleagues in the advisory group. Technical development was by Fred Riley. Video and audio recording was by Mike Taylor.

Licence and terms of use

© 2012 University of Nottingham. Developed in the School of Nursing, Midwifery & Physiotherapy

Involving service users and carers in your teaching by Joan Cook, Roni Anthony and Ian Trueman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/rlocopyright.html.

People

Content development: Roni Anthony, Joan Cook
Technical development: Fred Riley
Sound and video recording: Mike Taylor

Accessibility

Every effort has been made to render this package accessible to users with disabilities, following the W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to at least AA level. Users can navigate through the major sections of the package, and to next and previous pages, using defined access keys.

Technicalities

This package was developed in the PHP framework Codeigniter, and uses HTML5/CSS3-compliant page and style code throughout for accessibility and future-proofing. It's been tested in the HTML5/CSS3-compliant browsers Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer (IE) v9. To cater for IE versions prior to 9, which are not so compliant, Javascript has been used minimally to create HTML5 elements and to play media clips in the JW Player.

The Javascript framework jQuery has been used to generate dialogue layers in which media players and page content appear. If JS is disabled, the media players and content do appear in the page content. This application should 'degrade gracefully' with JS disabled.

For further technical details, contact the developer, Fred Riley.

Javascript and media

The Longtail JW Player is used to play media clips, audio and video. In HTML5/CSS3-compliant browsers, it will use HTML5 code to play media; in non-compliant browsers, it will use Flash. In either case, the media player is, perforce, launched with Javascript, so if you turn Javascript off, then the media clips will not play. However, media transcripts are provided on pages with media clips, which should be visible when Javascript is disabled.