Curriculum-Based Content for Flexible Delivery

Flexible delivery presents opportunities for enhancing the quality of learning and teaching across all areas of HE provision, including undergraduate taught courses, postgraduate taught and research-based provision, and the academic research community.

The HE Academy provides a range of generic pedagogic resources relating to flexible delivery. It also supports a Subject Network of 24 Subject Centres. These are a mix of single-site and consortium-based centres located within relevant subject departments and hosted by higher education institutions. Originally set up in 2000 as part of the Learning and Teaching Support Network, the centres have made a considerable impact since then. Each centre engages in a wide variety of activities to support practitioners, subject departments and discipline communities. Materials and resources in support of curriculum-based flexible delivery have been organised in terms of these HE Academy subject groupings as can be seen at del.icio.us/flexible_delivery/Subject_Centre.

Relevant resources include content development projects working in specific subject areas, collaborative initiatives through the JISC X4L programme, and flexible delivery initiatives focusing on the application of e-learning in particular subject or curriculum specialisms. A large number of high-quality online content resources have been developed through JISC work on digitisation and digital curation, including some significant archiving initiatives for teaching and research.