Pathways for Open Resource Sharing through Convergence in Healthcare Education (PORSCHE) Lindsay Wood Project Officer, Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV), UK Tel: +44 (0)

Background part of a £5M UK OpenCourseWare (OCW/OER) programme healthcare students train extensively in practice where they are supervised by clinical staff charged with providing education to pre-registration trainees access to National Health Service (NHS) online services for undergraduate student learning, especially those located in practice education, is limited

UK policy context openness - government, data, software, education economic cuts and efficiency savings patient consent student learning experience

Project partners Jorum NHS e-learning repository European and US based repositories

Aims seamless repository access to academic and clinical learning resources for healthcare students –deliver a substantial number of OCW in healthcare education –establish the basis for a long term national partnership between the NHS and academia –sharing of appropriately licenced content between academia and healthcare national repositories –achieve widespread uptake of the MEDEV good practice toolkit –promote debate over the development of a Consent Commons

Technical approach and standards metadata exchange live cross-search content exchange

MEDEV good practice toolkit learning resource metadata collection content comparison against good practice guidance on copyright/IPR, consent and quality assurance sign-off/auditing learning resource ‘put in many places’ syndication through APIs

Summary form the scaffold for a national partnership of open sharing establish the value of the services in enhancing the student learning experience in clinical placement settings ACTOR is an informed community of practice able to exemplify best practice in sharing learning resources

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