Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design

Curriculum Design in particular touches every aspect of an institution's core business from aligning its portfolio of courses to its mission and vision, through market research and product development to quality assurance, recruitment, assessment, timetabling and how it distributes its funding internally. The emphasis of the programme is on institutional approaches to curriculum design with senior level commitment to transformational change. The projects have been clustered around three common inter-related themes:

Employer Engagement and Learner-Focus

Leeds Metropolitan University: Personalised Curriculum Creation through Coaching (PC3)
Manchester Metropolitan University: Supporting Responsive Curricula (SRC)
Staffordshire University: Enable
University of Bolton: Co-educate

Quality and Process Enhancement

Birmingham City University: Technology-Supported Processes for Agile and Responsive Curricula (T-SPARC)
Cardiff University: Programme Approval Lean Electronic Toolset (PALET)
City University: Process Re-engineering Design for an Interdisciplinary Curriculum with Technology (PREDICT)
University of Greenwich: UG-Flex
University of Cambridge: Course Tools

Institutional Learning Design

The Open University: Open University Learning Design Initiative (OULDI-JISC)
University of Strathclyde: Principles in Patterns (PiP)
University of Ulster: Viewpoints

Transforming Curriculum Delivery through Technology

The Curriculum Delivery projects are exploring how learners interact with the curriculum and how technology can support and engage them more effectively within different disciplines. The projects have been clustered around four common inter-related themes:

Pedagogic models and approaches

Middlesex University: Information Spaces for Collaborative Creativity (Design)
Open University: Achieving Transformation, Enhanced Learning and Innovation through Educational Resources in Design (ATELIER-D) (Design)
University of Leicester: Delivering University Curricula: Knowledge, Learning and Innovation Gains (DUCKLING) (Education/Psychology)
University of Oxford: Developing New Models to Transform the Delivery and Support of Learning for Continuing and Professional Learning (CASCADE)

Employability and Learner Experience

College of West Anglia: KLTV - An internet TV Station to Enrich Teaching and Learning (Media)
Kingston College: Kingston Uplift for Business Education (KUBE) (Business)
Kingston University/De Montfort University: Mobilising Remote Student Engagement (MoRSE) (Geography/Life Sciences)
Lewisham College: Making the New Diploma a Success

Personalisation

Coventry University: Coventry Online Writing Laboratory (COWL)
St George's, University of London: Generation 4 (G4) (Medicine)
Newcastle University: Dynamic Learning Maps (Medicine)

Assessment and Feedback

University of Bristol: eBioLabs (Biosciences)
University of Exeter: Integrative Technologies Project (Business)
University of Hertfordshire: Effecting Sustainable Change in Assessment Practice and Experience (ESCAPE) (Business/Life Sciences)
Westminster University: Making Assessment Count (Biosciences)