JISC

Overview

The project will enable the University to join together its various change initiatives around curriculum development into a coherent and radical overall change process, which will ensure all stakeholder needs are understood, and identify overlooked issues, bringing them into the consciousness of the senior management team.

Aims and objectives

The project aims to embed coordination between projects within the university, to enable the development of new processes that will allow curriculum development to become more flexible and responsive.

At the end of the project it is envisioned that the university will have a small portfolio of product available to learners that can be customised by need. The project will identify issues blocking this aim and strives to enable the university to put strategies in place that will enable the university to move forward.

Project methodology

The project will be using agile project management. The project includes a Senior Management Working Group will be used to drive issues raised by initiatives within the university. The strategic management group consists of the project director, strategic manager, operational manager and the technical manager and is used to discuss the management of the project, to scope initiatives and review issues raised before they go to the SMWG.

Anticipated outputs and outcomes

•  Models of the domain and current business processes and the new orchestrated processes.
•  A report of the outcomes of the Investigative stage
•  Case studies from each Spoke initiative
•  An evaluation report from each Piloting and Evaluation phase.
•  A report on the issues around addressing the tensions between sustaining innovation and embedding/establishing necessary institutional control plus a critical review and model of the hub/theme/spoke approach adopted as a means to achieving institutional innovation in the context of meeting corporate goals
•  Descriptions of the course products developed or redesigned

Technology / Standards used