Making Integration Work 3: disseminating learning from integrated service development projects (P02410)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HEA-P-P02410

This course is part of a Programme which aims to help managers of health, social care and voluntary organisations identify and use different sources of information to more rigorously plan, evaluate and learn from service development projects which span different sectors and services. The Programme is divided into three interlinked courses through which students progressively build knowledge and skills needed in integrated service development.
This is the third course and provides training in disseminating learning from specific projects in ways appropriate to local strategic service planning.

? Keywords : Knowledge management, service integration, dissemination

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Undergraduate Honours or equivalent Making Integration Work 1 and 2 or equivalent

? Special Arrangements for Entry : Students bring with them a specific project selected in discussion with their organisation and learn through the development of this project.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Nursing Studies, (School of Health in Social Science, Schedule D)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Blocks 4-5

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 30 minutes per week for 12 weeks

? Additional Class Information : Delivery through:
• Two one-day workshops. (15 hours)
• Independent tutor input (2 hours)
• Guided reading. (20 hours)
• Work-based learning (140 hours)
• Writing project report and dissemination strategy (20 hours)

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Knowledge:
Evidence about organisational learning
Critical understanding of concepts, principles and theories about use of information in organisational development.

Application of knowledge and understanding:
Application of principles of knowledge dissemination to specific organisational contexts

Cognitive skills:
Critical appraisal of research evidence
Appraisal of different kinds of knowledge:
- Tacit knowledge
- Codified routine service information
- Information collected through different methods
Analysis and Integration of different types of information

Practical and teamworking skills:
Project management skills
- Organisational learning from critical evaluation of individual projects.
Project leadership which draws on a critical reflection on own and others' roles and responsibilities

Assessment Information

The component will be assessed by
- a presentation
- a written project report of between 2000 and 3000 words.

Assessment by
- Knowledge and understanding of theory, concepts and their practical application
- Appropriate use of information
- Doability