​PEER ENHANCED E-PLACEMENTS 
UNBLOCKING THE LOG JAM WITH SUSTAINABLE APPROACHES 

Constructing Work-based learning new book just published 2023 includes the PEEP story and models. Amazon or publisher, 
Covid 19 brought significant disruption, delays, backlogs and challenges for Higher Education 'placements', especially in
health and social care courses.  The rivers of learning are jammed by pre-pandemic capacity challenges,  pressures to  educate ever more students to address workforce needs, forced suspensions of face-to-face education.

Peer Enhanced E-Placement (PEEP) can help: it provides a sustainable model of placement delivery with rich and meaningful learning for students and rapid viable adoption for staff, deploying existing placement standards and outcomes.   For now - and for agile, flexible provision for uncertain futures. 

Take a quick tour through the PEEP philosophy, approaches, agility and adaptability.  Do not miss the chance to unblock your log jam.

Listen and watch: Professors Gilly Salmon  and Lisa Taylor reflect on what they have together created and can offer to you. 

We have worked with over 80 placement teams through workshops  over 3 years - feedback below.  We call this the PEEP Acquisition Experience. 


The PEEP Acquisition Experience

The PEEP Acquisition experience comes in three parts:
​Part 1 - Pre workshop activities –1-hour individual work - exploring professional placement standards & learning outcomes & understanding key components of a PEEP.

Part 2 - ½ day online workshop with Professors Gilly Salmon & Lisa Taylor. Outcomes: understand digital pedagogy for placements,  ability to implement PEEP  and customize to local and professional student placement learning needs. Fully digital delivery. Colleagues work together in professional groups of 2-5 participants. We can take up to 8 teams per workshop

Part 3 - Post workshop activities – 10-minute online quiz, receipt of an e-certificate of completion and a student e-handbook exemplar for local customization.
PEEP CONTEXUALISATION

Part 1 - 'Deep Dive' exploration with key stakeholders from profession/service/course
Part 2 - Visualisation of the process and outcomes of deep dive with artist in residence
Part 3 - Online forum to present results of deep dive and visualisation to wider stakeholder audience
Part 4 – PEEP Acquisition Package roll out to all individuals identified from Part 1. Can include other workshops if you wish. 
In the video opposite Rod Angood (our Artist in Residence) explains his composition of the visualisation for the Operating Department Practitioners PEEP journey.
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PEEP ADAPTABILITY AND AGILITY
​(design once: deliver many times)

The heart of any PEEP is the individual professional standards and specific placement learning outcomes for your students at their stage of learning. The core PEEP pedagogical journey for students is consistent – but the  experience can (and has been) fully adapted and adopted to reflect your  needs and challenges. PEEP is agile and can be moulded to fit and satisfy your local placement structure requirements. Although the PEEP has been implemented for health and social care students – the principles are applicable for any student placements across the higher education sector.

FEEDBACK

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PEEP Students
  • “chances for us to gather information, prioritise problems, settting goals and consider different assessments and interventions”
  • “the structure helped me meet the placement learning outcomes and guided me through the occupational therapy process”
  • "developed my confidence in professional reasoning”.
  • I have grown in terms of my knowledge …I have learnt a great deal from this placement
  • “ a little overwhelmed …it was a lot of work however …rewarding experience. I have gained a lot of invaluable knowledge
  • “I have grown…developed a wider understanding of the Occupational Therapy process… stressful and mentally draining period but…a rewarding one. I gained confidence and worked with fantastic people” 
  • “Privileged to be part of the new way of the world”
  • “I have gained more confidence with the technology aspect…”   

​PEEP Case Study Lead
  • ​“ This placement gave the students a good environment to explore and pratice their assessment and professional reasoning and to really get to grips with goal settting and prioritisation". 

PEEP Long Arm Supervisor
  • “This online placement really helped them (students) to adapt to working online, managing their time and develop to a new level of collaborative team working that they have not completed before. Their understanding of the complexities within each of the case studies presented really focused them on person centred care, within the constraints of  health service provision, and it enhanced their knowledge around each of the conditions presented in the case studies.”
PEEP Acquisition workshop Participants Feedback 
Participants so far from the following areas – Nursing (All fields ), Midwifery,  Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Paramedics, Podiatry, Medicine, Pharmacy, Operating Department Practitioners (ODP), Orthoptists,   and Optometrists. Also higher education careers advisors and science academics.  And veterinary nurses. 
  • I most appreciate the initiation to be part of such a tremendous initiative that can help us (and others,) more relevantly meet the training needs of today's students. It is great to be stretched to think beyond the regular way of doing placements.
  • This PEEP is needed to support the limited placement opportunities for nursing students.
  • Very useful workshop with clear structure and explanation. Thank you to all involved for the wonderful delivery, presentations and facilitation. The Q & A where all well responded to. The opportunity to explore ideas in the breakout rooms was very useful and some interesting and valuable discussions took place. Thank you to Lisa for guiding us in these discussions.
  • Excellent workshop and engaging hosts - thank you. It was great to see colleagues so engaged across AHP and producing excellent ideas for collaboration and inter-professional student learning
  • I am very grateful to have the PEEP concept introduced as I believe it will be a very valuable and necessary adjunct to F2F placement in the future
  • To develop a hybrid blended approach using the PEEP I believe would be extremely useful and beneficial for all professional training courses. I have found this workshop with other professional groups very useful and given me different perspectives on learning support and how to plan for PEEP
  • I found the workshop really useful to further enhance my knowledge and understanding of the PEEP model. Thank you for providing the evidence base
  • “Highly recommended workshop – time to discuss and reflect on how we can enable great practice learning for students online. Plenty of evidence says it’s not 2nd best but reflects today’s practice”
  • “Excellent session thank you” “Really informative workshop”
  • “Develops mind set that encourages PEEP as an integral part of student learning”
  • “Very engaging and thought provoking” 
  • “It is great that we don’t have to reinvent what is a great placement”
  • “It offers a lot of scope to provide experiences across all of the fields of nursing”
  • “This will address some the quality issues that we currently have with some of our current face to face placements”
  •  I most appreciate being part of such a tremendous initiative that can help us (and others,) more relevantly meet the training needs of today's students. It is great to be stretched to think beyond the regular way of doing placements.
  • "The PEEP is needed to support the limited placement opportunities for nursing students".
  • "Very useful workshop with clear structure and explanation. Thank you to all involved for the wonderful delivery, presentations and facilitation. The Q & A were all well responded to. The opportunity to explore ideas in the breakout rooms was very useful and some interesting and valuable discussions took place. Thank you for guiding us in these discussions".
  • "Excellent workshop and engaging hosts - thank you. It was great to see colleagues so engaged across Health Professions and producing excellent ideas for collaboration and inter-professional student learning".
  • "I am very grateful to have the PEEP concept introduced as I believe it will be a very valuable and necessary adjunct to F2F placements in the future"
  • "I have found this workshop with other professional groups very useful and given me different perspectives on learning support and how to plan for PEEP."
  • "I found the workshop useful to further enhance my knowledge and understanding of the PEEP model. Thank you for providing the evidence base. 
​Higher Education
Brunel University
University of West London
Presbyterian University of East Africa
Kenya Medical Training College
University of Bedfordshire                                                                                                                         
Birmingham  City University                                                                                                                                          
Buckinghamshire New University                                                                           
University of East Anglia
University of Huddersfield
Kingston & St. Georges University
London Southbank University
University of Nottingham
Sheffield Hallam University
Plymouth University
​Teesside University
​Robert Gordon University
Queen Margaret University
University of West of Scotland
Glasgow Caledonian University
University of Stirling
Brunel University
University of West London
Kenya Medical Training College 
Hospitals, Health Trusts and Organisations 
Health Education England
Frimley Health NHS Foundation 
Central and NW London NHS Trust
​Kenyatta National Hospital (Kenya)
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust 
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