Part of the programme support role for CETIS is to record and monitor the use and development of technologies across the programmes. This information is primarily stored in our PROD database, and then I contextualise the data primarily through blog posts like this one. We now have an openly available linked data store of our … Read more
The latest installment of Lou McGill’s series of posts highlighting the work of the Design and Delivery programmes takes an in-depth look at the Dynamic Learning Maps project, from the University of Newcastle. DLM was funded through the Curriculum Delivery Programme. It’s focus was on creating dynamic visualisatons of the medical curriculum. “The DLM project … 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
One of the things that struck me whilst working with the Curriculum Delivery programme is the excellent level of stakeholder engagement. I believe that successful projects listen to their stakeholders through all stages of development – from conception to embedding. By stakeholders I mean a whole range of groups affected by their innovations – managers, … Read more
As we might expect from a set of projects focussed on curriculum delivery innovation the Delivery projects are doing some very creative work with an incredibly broad range of technologies. These include virtual worlds and simulations, mobile technologies, learner portals, semantic technologies, video, audio, internet TV, assessment and e-portfolio technologies, and social networking tools and … Read more
Due to holidays etc I’ve been a bit late in reporting back on the Design Bash we held in conjunction with the 2010 European LAMS conference last month at the University of Oxford. A number of projects and critical friends from both programmes attended the day along with a number of other national and international … Read more
Gunter Saunders and the Making Assessment Count project team (University of Westminster) have created a SUM (service usage model) of their e-reflect process. SUMs have been a key part of the development of the eFramework and are designed to give a high level, overview of a process with an accompanying technical description of services being … Read more
The programme meeting for the Transforming Curriculum Delivery projects held in Birmingham last week focussed on sustainability, a perennial problem for JISC projects. The day consisted of a number of presentations and activities including a Dragon’s Den activity (which wasn’t as scary as it sounds!) on how to embed project outputs to ensure that the … Read more
All too often innovators can suffer a lack of recognition as ‘prophets in their own land’. This is certainly not the case for Dr Gus Cameron whose achievements have been recognised in the Bristol University Teaching Awards 2009/10. Gus is the winner of the e-Learning Award which is presented to an individual member, or group … Read more