JISC

Programme Meeting
May 22th – 23rd  2012
Lakeside Centre, Aston University, Birmingham

Meeting Objectives

The principal intentions of the programme meeting are to:

• Celebrate the successes and achievements of the projects
• Explore how projects can best ensure their activities are sustained and embedded into institutional  curriculum design processes and practices
• Further explore how projects can continue to share their experiences and their outputs with the wider sector, through programme support activities and benefits realisation opportunities
• Offer practical advice and guidance on compilation of the final report and project outputs
• 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 activities 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

Each project is asked to prepare a pecha kucha-style presentation around the key achievements of their project.  Each project has 10 minutes for their presentation which should include 10 slides (1 minute per slide). There will be 5 minutes Q&A after each presentation. 
On day one of the meeting, we are inviting people from outside the programme to attend so this is an opportunity to showcase the work of the project to an audience which has different levels of familiarity with the work of the programme.  Presentations should therefore be prepared with an external audience in mind.  The focus should be on impact and benefits (supported by evidence) and how these will be sustained and embedded after the project ends.  We suggest you consider using the headings from your Institutional Story (final report) to help frame this but this is not prescriptive and creative approaches are actively encouraged! There will be a prize for the best presentation.

Agenda and Activity Outline

Day One: 10.30 – 17.00 plus dinner at 19:30

Day Two: 09.00 – 16:00

Day One

Time	Activity	Rooms	Lead
10.30	Registration and refreshments
11.00	Welcome and introduction See presentation (PPT)	Main room	Sarah Knight
11.15	What has changed in relation to curriculum design practices and processes? See presentation (PPT)	Main room	Helen Beetham and Gill Ferrell
11.45	What have we learned?	Main room	Clusters to present what they have learned in relation to: · Business processes (Cluster A) · Organisational change (Cluster B) · Educational principles/curriculum design practices (Cluster C) Chaired by Critical Friends
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Celebrating our successes #1	Main room	Project presentations x 5 (10 mins per project) Chaired by Sheila MacNeill and Marianne Sheppard
15.15	Break	Main room
15.30	Celebrating our successes #2	Main room	Project presentations x 6 (10 mins per project) Chaired by Sheila MacNeill and Marianne Sheppard
17.00	Close
17:00 – 18:00	Final report surgeries*	Break out room and main room	Programme Support Team 4 projects in 2 parallel surgeries – 30 mins per project
19:00	Drinks reception	Business School
19.30	Dinner	Business School Restaurant

Day Two

Time	Activity	Rooms	Lead
09.00	Introduction to Day 2 and summing up of Day 1	Main room	Sarah Knight
09.15	Capturing and telling the story See presentation (PPT) In parallel with final report surgeries* 9.15-11.30	Main room Breakout rooms	Helen Beetham and Rachel Harris Programme Support Team 30 min for each project (4 projects)
10.45	Tea and coffee break
11.00	Continuing the journey - sustaining change and embedding project benefits See presentation (PPT)	Main Room	Peter Chatterton
12.30	Next steps – where are we going next? Design Studio, BR activities, Programme level comms	Main room	Sarah Knight Marianne Sheppard
13.15	Lunch
14.00	Close
14.00 -16.00	Final report surgeries* (14:00 – 15:30) Cluster meeting and networking space if required	Main room and 2 breakout rooms	Programme Support Team 30 mins for each project (3 projects)

*Final report surgeries- details of allocated slots to follow