e-distance learning forum 17.10.2007

Update on online distance learning at the

University of Edinburgh

Jake Broadhurst e-Learning Business Development Manager College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Postgraduate Directorate

A University imperative...

• …seeking opportunities to expand access to our provision at postgraduate and continuing professional development (CPD) levels through judicious choice of market-led developments of e-distance courses.

UoE Strategic Plan 2004-2008

ODL Programmes

Up and running• Anaesthesia Practice• Clinical Education• e-Learning• Forensic Medicine & Science• Innovation, Technology and

the Law • International Animal Health• Neuroimaging• Pain Management• Surgical Sciences• Translational Medicine

In development • Emerging and Neglected

Infectious Disease• Health Informatics• Health Information Governance• Equine Science

+ ? • Reproductive Biomedicine• Sleep Medicine• Global health and public policy• Health inequalities and public policy• Health systems and public policy

Partnerships enhance Distance Learning Programmes • Makerere University, Uganda• African Universities Veterinary e‑Learning

Consortium (AUVEC)• University of Florida, USA• University of Sydney, Australia • The Royal College of Surgeons, Scotland• National Health Service Education for

Scotland• Merck-Serono Pharmaceuticals,

Switzerland • Scottish Police College • South African Centre for Epidemiological

Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA)

Currently on my mind…

• How should we resource programmes? • What drives student recruitment? • What scale of student numbers do we want?• Postgraduate degrees and professional development

- how separate should they be? • How will technology change and can the University

keep up? • How can UoE governance frameworks be expanded to

include ODL programmes? • How can support services (College & Central) learn and

adapt to enable innovation in programme development and delivery?

Thanks & Good Luck!

Jake Broadhurst e-Learning Business Development Manager College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Postgraduate Directorate

Jake.Broadhurst@ed.ac.uk 242 6518