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

Building on the work of the JISC OULDI project, the Open University will be leading a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the theme of curriculum design with OERs (open educational resources) (see announcement). This will run from September to December 2012 and will be valuable for anyone seeking to develop their professional skills and … Read more

**NB this post has been amended from a post on my CETIS blog** This is the first of a series of posts summarizing the technical aspects of the JISC Curriculum Design Programme, based on a series of discussions between CETIS and the projects. These yearly discussions have been annotated and recorded in our PROD database. … Read more

Last month CETIS held a Design Bash at the University of Oxford, and there were a number of colleagues from the Design and Delivery Programmes in attendance. The day is an opportunity for those involved in the design process to get together and share tools, experiences, designs and practice. From the work emerging from the … Read more

Earlier this year we heard from a number of projects as part of an Elluminate session on Using video within the Curriculum Design programme: from personal reflection to evaluation evidence. During the session, Rebecca Galley and her colleague Andrew Charlton-Perez talked about whole project use of video within the Open University Learning Design Initiative project … 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

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