JISC

Date        12 - 13 October 2010
Venue      NCSL, Nottingham

 

Curriculum Delivery and Design joint programme meeting

Delivering the benefits: From project to institutional enhancement

This event has now closed.  See the agenda below for all presentations and resources. 

Meeting objectives

The principal intentions of the Joint Programme meeting are to:

• Focus on the relationship between curriculum innovation ,institutional quality assurance processes and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning, in particular the challenges and opportunities projects face within their own contexts
• Explore how projects can best ‘sell’ the benefits of their achievements to impact on institutional enhancement
• Showcase innovative practice from the Curriculum Delivery programme and explore/discuss how this can feed into the continuing work of the Curriculum Design projects and support transformation in curriculum delivery more widely
• Further explore how projects can contribute to sharing and embedding their good practice and innovation through the Design Studio
• Facilitate discussion, sharing and collaboration around common issues and challenges

By the end of the meeting

• Projects will have a better understanding of the different perspectives on the developing policy agenda around quality assurance and enhancement
• Projects will have identified and shared common challenges and approaches related to quality assurance and enhancement
• Projects will have explored approaches to embedding their outputs to support institutional enhancement
• Projects will have a clearer understanding of the good practice, innovation and findings which have emerged from the Curriculum Delivery programme and how this can enhance their own projects and practice
• Projects will have contributed to the further development of the Design Studio through the creation of new pages drawing together programme resources around QA and QE, and around other challenges and themes identified

Pre-meeting activities

Delivery projects

All Delivery projects will showcase their work in the Great Exhibition activity.  Please read the guidance which includes pre-activity information in advance of the meeting.

Design projects and other delegates

Please read the guidance regarding pre-activity information relating to the Great Exhibition session.

Final agenda for this event

Agenda 

Time	Activity	Lead
Day One - Tuesday 12 October
10.30 - 11.00	Registration, tea and coffee Registration and a chance for Delivery projects to set up their stands for the Great Exhibition session*
11.00 - 11.15	Welcome and introduction	Sarah Knight and Lisa Gray
11.15 - 12.00	Perspectives on quality in 21st century further and higher education Peter Findlay, Assistant Director, Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) will set the scene for the meeting and provide insights into the wider policy context for the quality agenda.	Peter Findlay, Assistant Director, QAA
12.00 - 13.00	Project Perspectives on Quality Assurance and Enhancement 3 parallel sessions,led by: University of Strathclyde; Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Greenwich; and the University of Westminster and West Anglia College.	Strathclyde MMU and Greenwich West Anglia and Westminster
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 -15.00	The Curriculum Landscape: current challenges Helen Beetham will provide an update on outcomes of cross-programme synthesis in terms of key emerging themes in light of current challenges which will be followed by group activities related to the Design Studio.	Helen Beetham
15.00 - 15.30	The Great Exhibition: Enhancing Curriculum Delivery through Technology The Curriculum Delivery projects will showcase how they have helped to transform (or start to transform) and enhance some aspect of curriculum delivery through technology.  The idea behind the Exhibition activity is to ‘sell’ project benefits to a wider audience.  See here for the project 'adverts' for each stand. (See pre-activity information below for details.)
15.30 - 17.30	Close followed by Dinner at 19:00
Day Two - Wednesday 13 October
09.00 - 09.15	Intro to Day 2 and summing up of Day 1	Sarah Knight and Lisa Gray
09.15 - 10.00	Keynote: Prof Betty Collis	Eddie Gulc
10.00 - 11.00	‘Fika’ time: project networking (with tea and coffee) This session provides time for projects to network, meet in their clusters or arrange ‘unconferencing’ sessions to meet with others around a particular area of interest.	Sarah Knight
11.00 - 12.00	Students as agents of change 3 parallel sessions, led by: Design Cluster B (presentation from Birmingham City), University of Exeter (presentation and brochure), Kingston College	Design Cluster B Exeter Kingston College
12.00 - 13.00	Lunch
13.00 - 14.15	The Curriculum Relay: passing the baton between Delivery and Design This activity will ask projects to reflect on the journey of the last 2 years in terms of vision, distance travelled and overcoming hurdles with the aim of providing benchmark for others	Gill Ferrell
14.15 - 14.30	Tea and coffee
14.30 - 15.30	Question time panel and discussion around the meeting theme: “Delivering the benefits: from project to institutional enhancement”	Peter Hartley (Chair)
15.30 - 15.45	Closing plenary
15.45	Close

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