JISC

 Programme Meeting
 October 11-12 2011
 The National College's Learning and Conference Centre, Nottingham  

 

Meeting Objectives

The principal intentions of the Programme meeting are to:

• Explore how projects can best ensure their activities result in real and sustained changes to curriculum design processes and practices and how to evidence this impact
• Showcase innovative practice from the Curriculum Design programme and explore and discuss how these outputs can assist in transforming curriculum design more widely in other institutions
• Further explore how projects can contribute to the programme level narrative around how institutions are changing the processes and practices relating to curriculum design and the role technology plays within this
• Facilitate discussion, sharing and collaboration around common issues and challenges

By the end of the meeting:

• Projects will be in a position to outline a clear approach to sustaining their innovations and changes to the curriculum design practices and processes
• Projects will have explored and discussed how project outputs can support transformation in curriculum design practice in other institutions
• Projects will be in a position to outline benefits realisation proposals for embedding their outputs to support institutional enhancement and realising the benefits of their projects more widely
• Projects will have a clearer understanding of the good practice, innovation and findings which have emerged from the Curriculum Design programme and how this can enhance their own projects and practice

Pre-Meeting Activities

There are two sessions which we ask projects to prepare for in advance: the Curriculum Design Marketplace and the Dragons’ Den session both scheduled for day 2.

1) The Curriculum Design Marketplace: guidance for projects

Download guidance document (Word)

2) Dragons’ Den

Each project team will be asked to pitch the case that their project has made beneficial and sustainable changes to the curriculum design process in their institution.

The pitches will be critiqued in a 'Dragons' Den' style activity (2 groups of 6 projects). The Dragons (3 per group) will represent senior managers within the institution. The aim is to convince these Dragons that the project has actually delivered the benefits you describe and that they will make a difference in the longer term. All project teams are asked to prepare a 5 minute pitch for the Dragon's Den session which addresses two key questions:

1. What changes has the project made to curriculum design practices and processes and for whose benefit?
2. What evidence is there that the change will be sustained?

You can present in any way you think will be most engaging and convincing including use of appropriate technology. But remember you only have 5 mins!

Agenda and Activity Outline

Day One: 11.00 – 17.00 with dinner at 19.30

Day Two: 09.00 – 16.00

Day One

Time	Activity	Rooms	Lead
10.30	Registration, tea and coffee
11.00	Welcome and introduction (ppt)	Main room	Sarah Knight
11.15	Managing change (ppt)	Main room	Peter Chatterton and Paul Bailey
11.45	Sustaining change in curriculum design practices and processes (ppt)	Main room and breakout room	Stephen Brown and Design Cluster B
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Continuing the story – how are curriculum design practices and processes changing across the programme?	Main room	Helen Beetham and Marianne Sheppard
15.15	Tea and coffee break	Main room
15.30	Debate motion: “This house believes that this programme will not actually change the pedagogic practice of curriculum design"	Main room	Gill Ferrell (Chair) with project representatives
16.45	Plenary and close of Day 1	Main room	Sarah Knight
17.00	A chance for projects to set up their stands for the Curriculum Design Market Place session	Exhibition Space
17.30	Programme Support Surgeries (optional) Evaluation Technical issues Communicating your outputs The Design Studio Project Management	Main room and breakout room	Programme Support Team
18.15	Close

Day Two

Time	Activity	Rooms	Lead
09.00	Introduction to Day 2 and summing up of Day 1	Main room	Sarah Knight
09.15	The Curriculum Design Market Place Activity	Exhibition Space
10.30	Tea and coffee break
11.00	Dragons Den Activity	Main room and breakout room	Dragons and project representatives
12.30	Feedback from the Dragons Den Activity	Main Room
12.45	Expectations for the final year	Main room	Sarah Knight
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Book proposal –Cluster B led activity for all clusters	Main room	Project representatives and critical friends
16.00	Close