The Quiet Revolution – the experience of introducing electronic marking at the University of...

The Quiet Revolution– the experience of introducing

electronic marking at the University of Huddersfield

H. Spilsbury Senior lecturer

S.Batt Senior Lecturer

Aims of workshop

• To share the experience of introducing electronic marking on a nurse education programme.

• Reflect on the potential impact of these developments in health and social care practice/ service delivery.

People and resource implications

Student experience

Student experience

Non benefits• Varied experience and

ability.• Anxiety regarding IT

use and plagiarism• Availability of

academic/IT support

Benefits• Accessibility to

marks and feedback.

• Reduced travel• Environmentally

friendly/ cost reduction.

Academic workload

Non- benefits• Anxiety• Time to learn• Time to manage• IT problems• Health and Safety

issues

• Benefits• Working flexibility• Module administration • Team work• Quality monitoring• Changes to assessment

IT support

• Institutional purchase of software.

• Availability of trained IT staff for support and trouble shooting

• Upgrading and checking of software for home use.

Interactive exercise on originality reports

• Detecting plagiarism?;– Only matches with what is in its database.

• Detect paraphrasing?;

• Lecturer vigilance;

• Differentiate between poor scholarship and plagiarism?

Transferable Practice, Knowledge and Skills

Students have to interface with IT equipment and software.

IT skills are transferable to: • practice settings (NHS KSF, 2004).• RiO, electronic records, System 1, EMIS• knowledge attainment such as searching

electronic resources for developing evidence based practice.

References

• www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk

• www.emis-online.com

• (RiO) www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk• Agenda for Change Project Team(2004)The NHS

Knowledge and Skills framework (NHS KSF) and the Development Review Process.. London: Department of Health