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NHS R-ITI Project
Using new generation Learning Content Production
and Management for Instant Training
The UK NHS Radiology Integrated Training
Initiative
Andrea Lorenzon
learn eXact International Project
Manager

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Giunti Labs – Key Strengths
• Company DNA within publishing – we know our business
• A key role in international institutions for the definition of
eLearning specifications (incl. IMS and SCORM)
• Open technical solution and flexible business model
• Global presence
– international team in HQ
– offices in the US and UK
– a rapidly growing customer base
– a broad VAR Network
• Innovative technology thanks to
world leading R&D lab
• Vice Chair of eLIG since 2004
(the European eLearning
Industry Group)

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Giunti Labs – part of Giunti Publishing Group
Giunti Publishing Group is the leading Southern European educational
and cultural publisher.
• Company history back to the 15th century
• More than 1000 emplyees and 200 ML € turnover
• 7000 titles catalogue,
500 new titles /year
• More than 100 000 teachers
subscribing to its pedagogigal
and educational magazines

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Giunti Labs - the Leading European
eLearning Company
• eLearning and Mobile Learning Content Services and Solutions
Provider
• Consulting services provider
– Content Management strategies
– Technology integration
– Competency and ePortfolio management
• Bespoke content producer
• Leading EU R&D Player
• HQ in Italy, offices in the UK
and US

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NHS R-ITI - Introduction
• Royal College of Radiologists, the Department of Health and
the NHS (UK National Health Service)
• Innovative ways to improve the training of junior radiologists
in the UK health system
• The current radiology training infrastructure in the UK cannot
support a large and rapid increase in the number of trainees
->A new approach to training
radiologists without putting stress
to the current training infrastructure

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NHS R-ITI - Requirements
• Need to engage over 350 subject matter experts throughout
the UK and abroad
• Provide the subject matter experts with a toolset that allows
their own development and review of content
– The ability to ‘tailor’ the templated environment
quickly and simply
– Simple development platform ensuring
consistency in the content
• Platform and development environment
needs to support the development of
national radiology guidelines,
as part of a National Libraries
for Health initiative

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NHS R-ITI – Goals
• To reduce radiology based diagnosis time from the current 2
years to 14 weeks
• Increase rapidly number of radiologists in practice
• To use digital approach to provide increased number of
radiologists without stressing the existing training infrastructure
• To set up a virtual network for
massive and rapid learning content
production and indexing in order to
cut production costs and time

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NHS R-ITI – Solutions
Simple Templates
• Simple, templated development environment, shared
development repository and comprehensive workflow
management
• XML and standards based RLO formats
• Advanced content authoring,
distributed workflow and
peer reviewing functionalities

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SlideShow – RITI project

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Achievements:
Approx. 10:1 Cost Savings
• A development team of 20 instructional designers and content
engineers
• More than 1000 eLearning modules (approx. 800 hours)
delivered in 14 months
• Double trainee numbers with the same investment
Content Production Costs
0
5
10
15
20
25
£/h M £ Total
R-ITI project
model
Average
commercial rates

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NHS R-ITI – Achievements
Global Interest to the Approach
• 3 years of radiology training on different standards
LMS /VLEs and live classes in Plymouth, Newcastle and Leeds
– for 1800 qualified specialists and 2000 radiologists in training
(2000 registered users to date)
• The success has been recognized in
the other professional colleges in the UK
– Specific interest from Anaesthetists,
Ultrasound experts, Radiographers,
Surgeons and Oncologists.
• Global interest in R-ITI eLearning solution
– Australia, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore

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“Giunti Labs has been instrumental in providing a stable, effective
and efficient development platform which has enabled
the R-ITI project team to create consistent,
high quality eLearning material very rapidly at low cost.
As an organisation they have been extremely supportive and reactive
to our constantly changing requirements. We hope to continue
this strong relationship into other projects in 2007.”
Jon Turner, Project Manager, R-ITI Project

13. 2006 © Giunti Labs
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NHS R-ITI Project
Using new generation Learning Content Production
and Management for Instant Training
The UK NHS Radiology Integrated Training
Initiative
Andrea Lorenzon
learn eXact International Project
Manager