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