ABSTRACT
This paper describes the process developed for, and lessons learned from, the conversion of the Ideologies of Welfare into a Multimedia teaching and learning format. Multimedia teaching and learning refers to the use of computers and programmes to present educational information to students in an interactive manner. The Ideologies of Welfare are groupings of often opposing social constructs which provide a rationale for differentiating policy decision-making concerning public welfare. A knowledge of the ideology which currently underpins the direction of the British health service is of particular interest to health care professionals such as pharmacists. The University of Derby validated The Course in September 1993. The Course Planning Team comprises staff of the School of Health and Community Studies, pharmacists from the School’s Academic Pharmacy Practice Unit plus senior hospital pharmacists at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary. The conversion of intellectual material to lessons in a Multimedia format is termed “authoring”.
