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 Sud udan an Lear arning ng Ma Management agement System em Initiati ative ve Sudan Health Library Abobakr Shadad Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist North Cumbria University Hospitals

Sudan Health Library Abobakr Shadad National University of Ireland, Galway

Project aims  Many individuals and groups are keen to contribute effectively in knowledge transfer to our home country.  In recent past , many Sudanese groups abroad were actively involved in educational and knowledge transfer activities.  With the open internet, a wider horizon and a better options for innovative ideas and projects exists.  A customised learning platform that could be accessible to most /all students /trainee/researchers in health science would be ideal learning hub.

Project aims  An accessible up-to-date educational resources is a fundamental step in improving education, training and medical and health practice standard in our country.  In brief ; we wish our students in Sudan to have similar access to modern resources available to their peers in UK or Ireland.  How to limits the barriers financial, technical /or political to improve accessibility to modern sciences

Learning Management System Initiative  Background:  LT for HE  Models of LMS  Our LMS Project - Aim - Methods -Funding -Participation & collaboration

What is VLE ? virtual learning environment   Web-based environment to support learning & teaching  Content on VLE system server is accessed via browsers  Provides a suite of integrated tools for:  Content delivery, group communication & collaboration, online assessment & student management  Commercial software  Designed to be simple to set-up & administer  Well-established and supported  Widely-used (in Ireland and internationally) Paul Gormely ,CELT, Academic Suite Training Guides

VLE / LMS Project Aim:  A robust Multi-disciplinary LMS accessible to students and trainee from  different healthcare disciplines Sudan. Proposed disciplines:  Medicine & medical specialities - Surgery & surgical specialties - Laboratory Medicine ,radiology - Dentistry and oral health. - Nursing and allied medical sciences. - Medical research - Information Literacy: Research skills, writing & Informatics -

Advantages associated with VLE  Students engagement; learning in social media Collaborative learning opportunity learning from peers.   Improves students IT skills  Civic engagement and service learning  Standardized learning outcomes.  It is not meant to replace actual classroom, but to further facilitate learning and integration with the set curriculum.  In our context; In addition to above, creating a healthcare community for exchange of  ideas and experiences

4 different Models of LMS surveyed over the last few years Blackboard - Moodle - Canvas - Al- DATA (an Indian IT developer) -

Moodle Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic  Learning Environment It has over 50.000 registered sites, ❑ serving 37 million users in 3.7 million courses worldwide. Upload a wide range of file types : ❑ -Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. -Multimedia (MP3 files, links to YouTube etc) -HTML files (web pages)

The project objectives & considerations Knowledge transfer  Provision of resources ❑ By pass sanctions on knowledge?? ❑ financial, political or technical. ❑ ❑ Establish a VLE accessible to ❑ students from all healthcare disciplines/ All other disciplines . -

VLE main sections Pharmacy Library Medical Library Education, teaching &Learning Nursing & Midwifery Library Open sharing Repositories Dental &Pharmacy Library Information Literacy & Research Skills Student Library Professional Exams Resources Discussion forum Copy rights Journals Academic folders (accessible only from Sudan) Honorary folders Memorial folders

Phase 2 :Target institutions FTE Presence of intranet IP address Public University Khartoum Gezira Omdurman Islamic Al- Za’eem Al-Azhari Alneelain Sinnar Gadref Red Sea Kassala Nihood Kosti Fasher Nyala Kordofan Shendi Nile Valley (Wadinneel) Dongola FTE Presence of intranet IP address Private Universities Medical Sciences & Technology Science & Technology International University of Africa Sudan International University Ahfad University for Women National Ribat Almughtaribeen Omdurman Ahlia National College Yarmook College Razi College Bayan College Nile College

The project funding

The project practicality  Funding : 3 phases phase 1  - Construction - Discuss with experts institution/s Generate a priority list - Agree on policy & user agreement. - Provide start-up package -

We aim to provide An undergraduate educational resources ,databases - Medical and scientific journals access - Resources relevant to professional exams e.g. MRCP, FRCS, etc. - Audio/ video ,podcast library - A discussion forum that helps interaction and exchange of ideas. - Selected links to open repositories. - All this to allow development of National Clinical Guidelines -

Students Resources Books, databases; MD Consult , A/V materials...but also ; Students study skills Students skills & professional   development

Resources for Hospital Practitioners and Postgraduate Students Suggested start-up contents: hospital libraries - The BNF: British National Formulary - - Up-To-Date ; http://www.uptodate.com/online/help/demo/index.html On campus libraries ; - BMJ Journals ; http://group.bmj.com/group/subscriptions-and-sales/journals%202011%20v2.pdf. - Oxford handbook series: http://oxfordmedicine.com/ - We are aiming to continuously build up the library contents - in all target disciplines and institutions.

Oxford Medicine Online Oxford Medicine Online is a collection of online medical resources which cover every stage in a medical career, from medical students and to those for senior doctors and consultants. New titles are added to Oxford Medicine Online throughout the year, with all existing titles replaced by new editions soon after print publication

BMJ Products

Resources in informatics, health education and research  Example: ANZIL  SPSS training

http://www.sdmedlib.com/ ( Home page )

Students skills folder ; basic features for demonstration

Teacher/ course instructor (profile page) ; basic features for demonstration ... Will need a Board of educators

Future ambitions & potentials The project should encourage universities to establish Intranet& online  access infrastructure. The contents can be build up to form a reference health library for all  health institutions in Sudan The possibility of future collaboration with international libraries and  learning portals

 We believe that knowledge is the only thing that underlies change  That why the first verses revealed in Quran was Iqraa :Read and learn to enable yourself.  Let us all as healthcare workers, IT sector , business , government etc let us all make the correct start from Iqra  To bring this project to its best positive impact, to bring it to every and each student and trainee in Sudan

Target institutions in Sudan FTE Presence of intranet IP address Public University Khartoum Gezira Omdurman Islamic Al- Za’eem Al-Azhari Alneelain Sinnar Gadref Red Sea Kassala Nihood Kosti Fasher Nyala Kordofan Shendi Nile Valley (Wadinneel) Dongola Private Universities FTE Presence of intranet IP address Medical Sciences & Technology Science & Technology International University of Africa Sudan International University Ahfad University for Women National Ribat Almughtaribeen Omdurman Ahlia National College Yarmook College Razi College Bayan College Nile College

 Challenges  Funding for staffing  Fund for learning resources  We are proposing collaboration with all parties and group who share same ideas and ambitions.

Sudan Learning Management System Initiative Project aim:   An accessible online LMS to trainee in different healthcare disciplines.  An up to date educational resources.  Resources relevant to professional exams. Email ; Shadad69@gmail.com 

Acknowledgment  Thanks and gratitude to my colleagues at the National University of Ireland Galway Learning Technologies Team , CELT , Galway . Professor Iain Mac Laren  Mr Paul Gormely   Dr Gerard O`Keeffe ,Department of Medicine ,NUI Galway  Ms Gwen Ryan, James Hardiman Library