The penultimate Curriculum Design Programme meeting took place earlier this week in Nottingham. Three and a half years into the funding cycle, the meeting focused on life after programme. What are the most effective ways to share, embed, build on the changes instigated by projects within and across institutions? To give an overview of the … Read more
On 30 September, CETIS are once again running a Design Bash at the University of Oxford. As in previous years this event will be very hands on allowing people to share their learning designs, tools and systems and to explore potential collaborations. Once again, we’ll be using Cloudworks to share resources and activity on the … Read more
**NB this post has been amended from a post on my CETIS blog ** How do you write learning outcomes? Do you really ensure that they are meaningful to you, to you students, to your academic board? Do you sometimes cut and paste from other courses? Are they just something that has to be done … Read more
A new JISC guide ” Transforming curriculum delivery through technology: Stories of challenge, benefit and change” has been launched today. “a mini-guide to the outcomes of the JISC Transforming Curriculum Delivery Through Technology programme, summarises the headline benefits of technology in curriculum delivery made evident by the work of the 15 projects in the programme … Read more
**NB this post has been amended from a post on my CETIS blog** A recording of the online presentation “From challenge to change: how technology can transform curriculum delivery” by Lisa Gray (JISC Progamme Manager), Marianne Sheppard (Researcher/Analyst, JISC infoNet and project co-ordinator for the Support and Synthesis project) and myself is now available online. … Read more
**NB this post has been amended from a post on my CETIS blog** As the Curriculum Design Programme is now entering its final year, the recent Programme meeting focused on effective sharing of outputs. The theme of the day was “Going beyond the obvious, talking about challenge and change”. In the morning there were a … Read more
“Going beyond the obvious, talking about challenge and change” was the title of yesterday’s Design Programme meeting in Birmingham yesterday. The activities provided a range very engaging and thought provoking discussions from all the project teams. To give a flavour of the day I’ve created a twitter story from they day: [View the story “Talking … Read more
We’ve completed another round of PROD calls with the Design Projects. I’ve summarized some of the key emerging issues on my CETIS blog. The calls are incredibly useful way for us to engage with projects and talk about things that don’t necessarily need to be put into interim reports. I was heartened to hear that … Read more
The latest article on the JISC elearning Focus blog focuses on the Delivery programme. Through the experiences of four of the projects (e-biolabs, Cascade, Making the New Diploma a Success, and Morse) the article explores how VLEs are being used to support curriculum innovation and discusses why, despite all their shortcomings, VLEs are still are … Read more
Earlier this week the Making Assessment Count project and CETIS ran a joint meeting focused on Assessment and Feedback. The meeting explored a number of innovative uses of technology to enhance feedback on assessment including electronic and automated feedback, alternatives to the traditional form of written feedback, the student perspective on feedback. Of course examples … Read more