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Open Educational Resources

Practical learning for digital and hybrid healthcare

The Hybrid Healthcare Open Educational Resources (OERs) provide practical learning materials to help educators, students and healthcare professionals build the skills needed for increasingly digital and hybrid healthcare environments.

The eight modules cover digital communication, clinical simulation, digital tools, healthcare workflows and management. Each resource is designed around practical activities, realistic scenarios and approaches that can be applied directly in healthcare education and practice.

Building Skills for Modern Healthcare

Digital healthcare is changing how professionals communicate, make decisions, manage services and deliver care. Healthcare education needs to keep pace, while ensuring that new technologies are introduced safely, confidently and with the needs of patients and learners in mind.

The Hybrid Healthcare OERs turn these challenges into practical learning opportunities. From using simple tools in everyday care to managing hybrid services, the modules support learners in developing digital confidence alongside the clinical, communication and decision-making skills they already need.

What You Will Gain

 

  • Practical Skills You Can Apply - The OERs focus on realistic tasks and scenarios, helping learners move beyond theory and practise how digital and hybrid approaches can be used in everyday healthcare and education.
  • Confidence to Use Digital Tools - The modules introduce technology in manageable steps, helping educators, students and professionals build confidence without needing advanced technical knowledge.
  • Safe and Human-Centred Digital Practice - Across the resources, attention is given to ethics, privacy, accessibility, communication and professional judgement so that technology supports rather than replaces good healthcare practice.

Explore the Hybrid Healthcare OERs

1. Teaching Carers to Use Digital Tools Well


Learn how everyday digital tools can support clearer, safer care communication, with practical guidance for using tools such as ChatGPT responsibly.
Download Module One

2. Simple Tools Today


Explore how to choose and use accessible digital tools for communication, follow-up and continuity of care without relying on complex systems.
Download Module Two

3. Digital Empathy in Hybrid Care


Develop practical communication techniques that help maintain patient trust, emotional safety and connection across virtual and face-to-face care.
Download Module Three

4. Digital Literacy for Healthcare Lecturers


Build confidence in selecting and using simple digital tools to create more engaging, flexible and relevant healthcare learning experiences.
Download Module Four

5. Ten-Minute Tool Integrations


Discover how short, repeatable digital activities can be incorporated into existing lectures without requiring major changes to teaching practice.
Download Module FIve

6. Clinical Simulation in Medical Education


Use structured clinical simulation to connect theory with practice while building students’ confidence, decision-making and teamwork in a safe environment.
Download Module Six

7. Integrating Tools into Medical Workflow


Explore how digital tools can be introduced into healthcare workflows safely and effectively while supporting clinical reasoning and digital health competence.
Download Module Seven

8. Managing Healthcare in a Hybrid World


Develop the leadership and decision-making skills needed to combine digital and face-to-face care while considering quality, privacy, accessibility and equity.
Download Module Eight
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