As the Design projects come to and end and are compiling their final stories of their four year journeys, I’ve been thinking about timelines. So, in preparation for next week’s final programme meeting, here’s a timeline which pulls pictures and videos from youtube and twitter that have been tagged with #jisccdd (thanks to my colleague … Read more
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
One of the activities that took place at the last programme meeting was a debate on the topic: ‘This house believes that this programme will not actually change the pedagogic practice of curriculum design’’ The debate took place under the Chatham House Rule but, by popular demand, we have been persuaded to bend the rules … 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
“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
Last week saw around 140 delegates gather in Nottingham for the annual JISC CETIS conference. A number of the Design projects contributed to the session “Integrating and Subverting Corporate Systems for Educational Purposes” which I facilitated. Session presenters, Mark Stubbs (SRC), Jim Everett (PiP), Sam Rowley (Enable) and Hugh Davies, University of Southampton (we had … Read more
Part of the role of CETIS in the support of both the Delivery and Design Programmes is to record the different types of standards and technologies that projects are using. Over the past few months I’ve been blogging about this and also working with colleagues to provide different views on the data we’ve been collating. … Read more
A key theme at the joint programme meeting last week was “curriculum challenges.” Helen Beetham’s session focused on some of the key challenges in curriculum design and development and on how the set of curriculum challenges, derived from project reporting has not only provided one navigation path for the Design Studio but also provided a … Read more