title: Innovation in preregistration midwifery education: Web based interactive storytelling learning.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  through a critical description of the implementation of a web based interactive storytelling learning activity introduced into an undergraduate, preregistration midwifery education programme, this paper will explore how low-cost, low-fidelity online storytelling, designed using Moodle, can be used to enhance students' understanding of compassion and empathy in practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  cross sectional sample of first year undergraduate Midwifery students (n111) METHOD: drawing from both research and audit data collected in an Higher Education Institution in London England, the paper presents the case for using web based technology to create a sustainable model for midwifery education.
  
  
  RESULTS
  initial results indicate that it is both the low cost and positive student evaluations of web based interactive storytelling, which make this approach to preregistration midwifery education which suggests that this approach has significant potential for learning and teaching in midwifery education in diverse settings around the world. Or how about: global relevance? .
authors.affiliation: Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research, School of Health Sciences, Northampton Square, City University London, EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom. Electronic address: Mandie.scamell.1@city.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Mandie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scamell
authors.affiliation: Learning Enhancement and Development, Northampton Square, City University London, EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hanley
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007858:Learning; D008131:London; D008880:Midwifery / Q000193:education*; D011247:Pregnancy; D000066908:Simulation Training / Q000379:methods*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Compassion; Empathy; Midwifery education; Moodle; Simulated practice; Web based