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Optometry Curriculum Update for Lifelong Learning through ErasmUS

Participating institutions European Countries Partner Countries • Norway • Israel – University College – Hadassah of Academic College Southeast Norway – Bar Ilan University • Spain – Sapir College – Polytechnic • India University of Catalonia – University of Hyderabad • The Netherlands – Birla Institute of Technology – University of Applied Sciences and Science, Pilani Utrecht • Bausch and Lomb School • Elite School • UK – Manipal University – City University London

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 of cultural competency among optometry 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 online portfolio for educators and students to use through undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education including work experience

Outcomes • Immediate • Longer term – Increase harmonisation – Addressing preventable of optometry education blindness in partner countries – Increased accessibility to – Increase mobility of quality eye care optometrists in partner – Harmonisation of countries optometry education – Enhance EBP education globally – move optometry forward in this area

OCULUS Consortium WPs Flowchart V9 Novel Educational DipE Accreditation Technology Modules Oct/2016 Enhanced Learning WP-3.1 WP-2 WP-1.1 Creation of Educational Creation of OCULUS Benchmark 1 Dec/2016 Modules *(EDU cultural Portal (CCC) Comparison of curricula competency and EBP) at HEI to European DU PLN Diploma (DipE) WP-2.1 WP-1.2 Workshop to teach Workshop for development a consortium members Pedagogic Transformation Plan WP-3.2 (PTP), Deliverables and Schedule EDU Configuring PLN (for DipE Pilot and Experiments WP-4.1 Dec/2017 WP-1.3 PLN Workshop at HEI in Israel Development of Pedagogic and India for Teachers Resources DipE EDU PLN DipE WP-4.2 Piloting at HEI in Israel and India Dec/2018 EDU PLN DipE WP-5 WP-1.4 Benchmark 2 Dissemination and Sustainability of Results PLN EDU DipE

a n d I mpact EDU PLN DipE Oct/2019