JISC

Event   Joint Programme Meeting
Date    13 and 14 October 2009
Venue   The Midland Hotel, Manchester

Aims and objectives

 The principal intentions of the Joint Programme meeting are to:

• To provide an opportunity for projects across the Curriculum Design and Delivery programmes to network and gain an overview each other’s work and to identify where there are synergies
• To introduce projects to the Design Studio and provide activities to enable projects to validate the curriculum lifecycle model, and explore how project outcomes will contribute to the Design Studio

By the end of the Joint Programme meeting:

• Projects will have found out more about projects in other clusters/their sister programme and explored synergies and common themes
• Projects will have considered the value of the Curriculum Lifecycle as one interface to resources in the Design Studio. Projects will have contributed suggestions for further development of the Design Studio to best showcase their own outcomes
• Projects will have explored the relationships between Design and Delivery throughout the lifecycle.
• Projects will have had the opportunity for peer-mentoring discussions on topics they have identified as important to them
• Projects will have considered common themes arising from their baselining activities and discussed ways of achieving and evaluating change
• Projects will have considered the assets they are producing and how to maximise their potential usefulness
• Projects will have been inspired to think creatively about the future of curriculum design and delivery

This is the first time that the two programmes have met formally as part of the support programme. In designing the agenda for this meeting we have focused on cross-programme themes and specifically avoided activities which require the projects to engage with their existing cluster groups. The value of these groupings is very evident and the support programme offers many other opportunities for this form of engagement.

Pre-meeting activities

Projects were asked to complete the following tasks in advance of the meeting:

1. Record a video of up to 3 minutes in length using your flip cameras (involving at least one stakeholder voice).  Upload your video to YouTube (a channel for this has been set up for the programme, see www.youtube.com/jisccdd) in advance of the meeting, and before the 7th October 2009. If you upload the video to your own channel, please  join the ‘jisccdd circle’ group from the jisccdd channel home page and add the link to your video. Please see the attached guide to uploading.  The video should include the following:
   
   Project name, programme (design or delivery) and lead institution/s
   
   One or two interesting things the project has been doing that you feel others across the programmes would be interested in knowing about. Involve at least one stakeholder voice.
   
   
2. Produce a project poster (A0 size) that focuses on providing some sort of  visual representation of your project, ideally with a focus on visualising the impact your project hopes to achieve. For those of you with with existing posters, feel free to re-use!  As we'd like to ensure the posters are in place and ready before the start of the  meeting, email them in pdf format to Owen Roberts by Friday 5 October 09. Please ensure they are scaled to print to the right size (if the file is over 10mb, please send via youSendIt) . Poster specifications - the posters will be printed A0 so please ensure that the pdf you send through is scaled correctly:
   •  The required Dpi is 300.
   • CMYK colour is preferable for printing.
   • The Bleed Margin should be 3mm.
   • Orientation - portrait is prefereable for poster boards.

   Agenda

   Day One: 11.30 – 17.30 plus drinks reception/dinner

   Day Two: 09.00 - 15.30

   Day One
   10.30 - 11.30	Registration and poster display
   11.30 - 11.45	Welcome and introductions
   11.45 - 12.00	Video spotlight
   12.00 - 12.45	Poster networking
   12.45 - 13.45	Lunch and networking
   13.45 - 14.15	The Design Studio concept
   14.15 - 14.35	The Curriculum Lifecycle in practice (intro)
   14.35 - 15.40	The Curriculum Lifecycle in practice (group work)
   15.40 - 16.00	Tea
   16.00 - 16.30	Feedback
   16.30 - 17.30	Peer mentoring groups Stakeholder engagement Piloting new delivery approaches Evaluation Agile Process Development Describing the curriculum
   18.30	Drinks reception and dinner

   Day Two
   09.00	Welcome
   09.00 - 10.00	'Rethinking the Curriculum for Interesting Times' Keri Facer, Professor of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University
   10.00 - 10.30	Getting off first base - (1 The Issues)
   10.30 - 11.00	Tea
   11.00 - 12.15	Getting off first base - (2 The Solutions)
   12.15 - 12.30	Feedback
   12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
   13.30 - 14.00	Making the most of our Assets (intro)
   14.00 - 15.00	Making the most of our Assets (group work)
   15.00 - 15.30	Feedback, forward planning and closing remarks

   
   

   If you have any queries, contact Lisa Gray (Programme Manager) or Alicja Nieborak (Programme Support Assistant)

3. Exploring each others projects - in addition to the video clips, you can will find links to project blogs/websites at www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/curriculum/projects . (Alternatively, feeds from these are aggregated in www.netvibes.com/circlejisc ). Projects are grouped under broad themes which provided a rationale for clustering projects at the start of the programmes. However, a number of projects will be working across these and other themes.

For all handouts please see the documents attached below: