Category Archives: Agile Processes

Curriculum change and transformation: outcomes from the JISC Curriculum Design programme

Challenges and context The last four years have seen unprecedented change in higher education in the UK. During that time 12 universities funded under the JISC Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design programme have been steering change projects through some significant challenges to transform their institutions’ approaches to curriculum design. The projects were focusing on a … Read more

Posted by msheppard on in Agile Processes, Change Management, Design Projects, Employer Engagement, Learner Experience, Learning Design, Pedagogic Approaches, Quality Assurance and Enhancement, Sustaining and Embedding and tagged jisccdd.

Debating our achievements

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

Posted by Gill Ferrell on in Agile Processes, Change Management, Design Projects, General, Pedagogic Approaches.

EA, the Design Studio & Curriculum Design

I have found recent debate within the support team about the Design Studio thought-provoking. Since its inception we have wrestled with the fact that the Curriculum Lifecycle represents a particular view of the territory that is not necessarily shared by all potential users and hence we have looked at providing other pathways through the resources … Read more

Posted by Gill Ferrell on in Agile Processes, Design Projects, modelling, Random Thoughts.