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Optometry Curriculum Update for

Lifelong Learning through ErasmUS

Participating institutions

European Countries

• Norway

– University College

• f

Southeast Norway

• Spain

– Polytechnic

University

• f

Catalonia

• The Netherlands

– University of Applied Sciences Utrecht

• UK

– City University London

Partner Countries

• Israel

– Hadassah

Academic College

– Bar Ilan University – Sapir College

• India

– University of Hyderabad – Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

• Bausch and Lomb School
• Elite School

– Manipal University

Project aims

• Enhance quality of optometry curricula in the

participating institutions, meeting the criteria for

accreditation for the European Diploma

• Bring EBP learning and teaching into the

participating institutions’ optometry curricula

(EBP-ready graduates)

• Raise

awareness

• f

cultural competency among

• ptometry educators in the participating

institutions

• Creating digital tools to support lifelong learning

in optometry

How?

• Erasmus Plus grant application

– Up to 1m Euro – Optional funding for staff and student mobility – 3 year project

https://erasmusplus.org.uk/

Curricula ready for ED benchmarking

• Self-assessment of curricula – looking for

duplication and gaps compared with European

Diploma

• Gap

analysis from European Council for

Optometry and Optics

• Transformational

plan (design and

implementation)

• Repeat self-assessment

Curricula and educators ready for EBP

and cultural competency

• EBP teaching strategies to ‘thread’ through

curricula (based on strategies with demonstrated effectiveness)

• Workshops for optometry educators

– EBP and cultural competency

• Piloting in India and Israel (do these teaching

methods work there?)

Online resources

• Project portal

– Web site to disseminate our aims and activities and to house all resources developed in the project

• Personal learning network

– Personalised

• nline

portfolio for educators and students to use through undergraduate,

postgraduate and continuing education including

work experience

Outcomes

• Immediate

– Increase harmonisation

• f optometry education

in partner countries – Increase mobility of

• ptometrists in partner

countries – Enhance EBP

education

– move optometry forward in this area

• Longer term

– Addressing preventable blindness – Increased accessibility to quality eye care – Harmonisation of

• ptometry education

globally

Oct/2016

OCULUS Consortium WPs Flowchart V9

DipE Accreditation Novel Educational

Modules Technology

Enhanced Learning

Dec/2016 Dec/2017

WP-1.1 Benchmark 1

Comparison of curricula

at HEI to European Diploma (DipE) WP-1.2

Workshop for development a Pedagogic Transformation Plan (PTP), Deliverables and Schedule

DipE

WP-1.3

Development of Pedagogic Resources DipE

WP-2

Creation of Educational Modules *(EDU cultural competency and EBP)

WP-2.1

Workshop to teach consortium members EDU

WP-4.1

Workshop at HEI in Israel and India for Teachers

WP-3.1

Creation of OCULUS

Portal (CCC)

DU PLN

WP-3.2

Configuring PLN (for Pilot and Experiments PLN EDU PLN DipE

Dec/2018

WP-4.2

Piloting at HEI in Israel

and India

WP-1.4 EDU

Benchmark 2

PLN DipE EDU

PLN

DipE

WP-5 Dissemination and

Sustainability of Results

a n d I mpact

Oct/2019

EDU PLN

DipE