Care
and Health Law
Major
new eLearning course on 'The Mental Capacity Act'
Care and Health Law is a leading authority on law, policy
and practice developments relating to social and health
care provision in the UK.
The company has a highly respected
and well-established consultancy and classroom training
business and sought to publish its wealth of knowledge
and materials as a suite of on-line modules suitable for
use by a wide range of professionals. The scope and implications
of the new Mental Capacity Act need to be fully understood
by the wide population charged with the care of potentially
vulnerable people.
TNA was contracted to produce
this major eLearning project in under three months and
worked closely with the client to script, design and develop
2,000 content files, delivered on-line. This included
200 Flash files, 1,300 audio narration files and almost
500 resource documents supplied by the client.
Users log-in using a custom
registration system developed by TNA and choose one of
five job categories, such as Front line staff or Senior
NHS and LA management and lawyers. This category ‘flag’
then determines which material is available to them during
the program and which resource documents are visible in
the Library.
Every screen presents its information as images with clear,
large text accompanied by an optional voiceover narration.
As each text item appears it is shown as a full transcript
but shrinks automatically to a shortened form when the
next text item appears.
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There are numerous opportunities for the learner to ask
an expert’s opinion on an issue and to practise
making their own decisions in different situations.
A novel feature devised by the
client is that of a narrated ‘storybook’ which
gradually unfolds throughout the program and which serves
to bring alive the real-life dilemmas faced by all those
involved in two typical situations. The story of either
Esme or Junior may be selected early in the program and
the material that follows in all the modules – including
the self-check questions and final assessment - is then
geared to that choice.
If the pass mark is reached
in the final assessment then a certificate carrying the
user’s name and score may be printed locally. The
user’s module completion progress, bookmark point,
best quiz score and date are all passed back to the registration
system and stored for analysis and reporting.
The on-line Registration system
includes facilities for administrators in Local Authorities
and in the organisations under their supervision (such
as NHS Partnership Trusts and Care Homes) to manage and
control the users accessing the training.
Full details of the program
may be obtained from the Care
and Health Law web site.
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