3.5.2 Your Institutional Lifecycle

Experience from other MLE developments suggests that some understanding of institutional lifecycles and how your MLE development relates to them is valuable. The following questions will help you list these and consider their relationship to your MLE development.

1. List any key institutional lifecycles which might be of relevance to your MLE development. These may different in terms of scale and timescales. For each you may want to consider what the key activities are and when they occur, who is involved in the process and what the outcomes area. Examples of lifecycles to consider include:

   • The overall academic year

   • Strategic and operational planning

   • Local faculty of departmental meetings and committee schedules

   • Institution level meetings and committee schedules

   • External events and cycles - such as quality audit and the RAE

   • External funding programmes

   • Internal funding initiatives

   • Roll out of a new technical system

   • The recruitment process

   • Curriculum development

   • The exam timetable

   • Institutional audit

   • Subject quality review

2. How do these relate to your MLE development?

3. Is there information from the MLE development lifecycle which could usefully be feed into the other lifecycles or vice versa?

4. Are there some activities across the lifecycles which could be combined?