Dawn Grundy

Professionalism is an essential attribute, which is fundamental to personal development, self-awareness and preparation for future employment across all disciplines. We often expect our learners to have the essential knowledge and understanding of professional attitudes and behaviours at the start of their programme of study. However, it is widely recognised that due to societal and cultural change, social media, and many other factors, the term `Professionalism` does not always share the same meaning. In order to develop a greater awareness and promote individual development of learners, our aim is to prepare them for professional practice and regulation through professional bodies. Our overall strategic agenda is to bring professionalism to the forefront of education, and embed it with our programmes of study.
This presentation will discuss how the School of Nursing and Midwifery has worked with the Academic Librarian for the School to develop a section in LEAP Online about Professionalism.
We will discuss how we collaborated to design the content explaining professionalism and its importance, developed scenario based activities for the students to measure their understanding of professionalism and finally test their knowledge and understanding by gaining a digital badge.
We will reflect on how our experience as practitioners has helped shape this exciting new content and our plans to develop it further and embed across all subject areas within the university.

The session will discuss the background to the development of LEAP Online as an academic skills portal by one of the content developers. The programme and module leads will discuss the introduction of LEAP Online as a study aid, positively reinforcing the tool throughout the students’ programmes of study. The student viewpoint of how LEAP Online has provided the skills, knowledge and confidence to enhance progress in all academic areas will be outlined from a current student’s perspective.
It is anticipated that attendees will gain the knowledge of how using LEAP Online in teaching can have a transformative effect on the student learning journey.

This session will showcase the transformation of BISSTO to LEAP Online. The new platform will include expanded content in the following sections: My Academic Engagement; My Personal Development; My Digital Literacy and My Student Engagement. The new content will be presented in an engaging way with videos, activities and trackable assessments based in Moodle. Students will be awarded a digital badge for passing the assessments which shows on their Moodle profile, enabling tutors to track their students' engagement with the skills tutorial. LEAP Online will also have differentiation within each section to ensure that content is provided to more able students to stretch their development further.
The workshop will demonstrate how LEAP Online can contribute to and support academic skills and scholarship modules and the personal tutorial system. We would also welcome ideas for content and activities that would help you deliver your skills modules and tutorials. In the session, you will learn about LEAP Online expanded content and badged assessments and how LEAP Online can be used in skills modules and tutorials.