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3. FACILITIES AND SUPPORT AT THE RVC
3.1 Learning Resources
For students with disabilities, the way that you study may have a large impact on your success on your course. Students with dyslexia or specific learning differences may find that processing continuous black text from a white background may overload memory and you might find it difficult to recall information or distinguish one article from another. For students with long- term health conditions, or processing difficulties, different methods of learning may help.
If you have a hearing loss, visual materials might be really useful, or if you have co-ordination difficulties, it might be useful to revise procedures from video in your own time.
Multi-sensory learning is about using a variety of methods to support your studies. The RVC is keen to develop a number of ways of accessing materials.
To break away from the text books, students at the RVC can try the following:
RVC Learn
This is an online facility where you can view timetables, handouts
and learning materials linked to your course modules and get notes and recordings online. The audio and PowerPoint presentations from lectures are automatically recorded and are uploaded to RVC Learn for you to review in your own time. RVC Learn is the main hub where you
can access all the following facilities. Documents are usually provided in pdf format.
RVC Media Bank, Digital and DVDs
These resources support learning through pictures of techniques, visual recordings of surgery and practical methods so that you can revise these to develop your own skills. The E-Media team at the RVC are keen to expand on the number of recordings available for students and many lecturers provide CD- ROMs of procedures which can be borrowed from the library.
Podcasts and ‘Potcasts’
These are sound files with or without images about RVC research and taught sessions (Podcasts) which can be downloaded onto your MP3 player to listen to, perhaps when travelling to College or in
the evenings. Podcasts are being developed by the E-Media team and use the anatomy ‘pots’ to provide annotated descriptions of anatomical structures.
Online Journals and Electronic Texts
By accessing electronic texts and journals, you may be able to listen to, as well as read, text that is provided online. Dyslexic students may find this useful if reading large amounts of text is tiring, or if you find it easier to process aural information. The Disabled Students’ Allowance can help pay for assistive software which allows you to highlight text and have this read back to you.
Veterinary Learning Resources
The ’Veterinary Learning Resources’ course on RVC Learn contains links to a wide range of online learning material, including online quizzes and tutorials. It aims to supplement
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