Creating your own E-learning portfolio

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Dear Colleagues,

 

The organization behind the TRIP Database have just released a completely new free product called TILT (which stands for Today I Learnt That) which can be accessed via http://tilt.tripdatabase.com.  TILT is a shared learning tool aimed at capturing and sharing clinical learning.  The site is simple to use yet very powerful. Some of the main features include:

 1) Record and share clinical learning: A simple, yet powerful, way of recording a user's learning all stored in a personal learning log.  2) Easily learn from fellow clinicians: Read a TILT and like it; press a button and it’s added to the users learning log – simple as that.

 3) Powerful social feature: TILT allows users to choose which clinicians to follow, users follow the clinicians who TILT about topics they find interesting. Users can even start special interest/organisational groups.

 4) TILT is a great way of recording your learning (and reflections) which may be useful for CME/CPD purposes.  Given it’s so easy to learn off others, users can rapidly build up a large portfolio of education – which can be handily exported via a PDF.

 5) Serendipitous learning: As one of the pilot users said “You’ll be amazed at what you don’t know”. 

 From an information perspective it'll act as a great repository of clinical learning, in other words information which clinicians themselves find useful and interesting.  It's a completely different way of viewing information, which is typically a top-down affair.  And, as it's from TRIP, it's got a powerful search function.

 This is highly innovative which we hope will inspire more than confuse!