{"id":244,"date":"2015-12-10T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T11:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/?p=244"},"modified":"2015-12-10T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T11:10:28","slug":"new-publication-virtual-courses-enhancing-a-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/2015\/12\/10\/new-publication-virtual-courses-enhancing-a-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication: Virtual courses: enhancing a curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/files\/2015\/06\/Heidi-Bateman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-95\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/files\/2015\/06\/Heidi-Bateman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Heidi Bateman\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Bateman, H. L., Ellis, J. S. and Thomason, J. M. (2015), Virtual courses: enhancing a curriculum. European Journal of Dental Education. doi:\u00a010.1111\/eje.12170.<\/p>\n<p>This article outlines one of the innovations the School of Dental Sciences have implemented to provide clear signposting for students and staff of key themes running throughout the undergraduate curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>A virtual course incorporates elements from across the current programme which are related to a specific theme.\u00a0 Examples of themes include \u2018Working as a Dental Team\u2019 and \u2018Study Skills\u2019.\u00a0 Elements are incorporated from a range of academic and clinical courses and are repackaged to permit demonstration of where that specific theme is taught, experienced and assessed within the 5 year programme of study.<\/p>\n<p>We believe use of these \u2018virtual courses\u2019 promote a range of benefits including enhancement of programme transparency, and in already comprehensive programmes, allows a response to new requirements and initiatives of external regulatory bodies without major curriculum restructuring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Miss Heidi Bateman, School of Dental Sciences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bateman, H. L., Ellis, J. S. and Thomason, J. M. (2015), Virtual courses: enhancing a curriculum. European Journal of Dental Education. doi:\u00a010.1111\/eje.12170. This article outlines one of the innovations the School of Dental Sciences have implemented to provide clear signposting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/2015\/12\/10\/new-publication-virtual-courses-enhancing-a-curriculum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/erdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}