Technology-supported processes for agile & responsive curricula
Overview
Technology-Supported Processes for Agile and Responsive Curricula (T-SPARC) will deliver an information and communication technology (ICT) 
Project
blog infrastructure that will facilitate greater levels of dialogue between stakeholders in curriculum design; more authentic and transparent representation of the courses (and their underpinning rationale) for the purposes of approval; more streamlined end-to-end workflow for the creation and distribution of the documentary artefacts which support and describe courses and their design; and most importantly, support of people to encourage all relevant personnel to engage with the technologies made available to them.
Aims and objectives
Broad goals
Systems deployed will facilitate the:
- representation of course designs, for the purposes of approval, with a wider range of media than is currently possible
- enhanced access to programme-design relevant information
- support of a greater degree of consultation and collaboration between the members of the course team during the programme design phase
- efficient approaches to the sharing and distribution of the documentary artefacts associated with programme design
Project methodology
This is nested project which sits within the larger Redesign of the Learning Experience (RoLEx) Project. The Project Manager / Academic Lead, with the support of other project staff, will facilitate stakeholder engagement for the collaborative design of systems and act as a broker to Corporate ICT and Academic Registry.
Systems advocacy at Faculty level will be auctioned through the agency of Faculty champions, these champions will support local stakeholders in their use of new systems.
Anticipated outputs and outcomes
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Report on the current state of institutional processes and procedures for programme design, review and reapproval.
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Report on how the initial review has been interpreted by the University’s management and how the information has informed policy.
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Suite of platform independent pedagogic planning resources.
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Series of case studies (format to be determined by stakeholder preference)
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Periodic reports on the fitness for purpose of the technology deployed.
Technology used
Project Staff
Project Manager
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Paul Bartholomew, Birmingham City University, Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, 0121 331 6635
Project Team
Project Operation Group membership:
- Stuart Brand (Chair, Director of Learning & Teaching) Project Director
- Mary Carswell (Directorate Strategic Lead)
- Paul Bartholomew (Project Manager / Academic Lead)
- Ros Boyne (Academic Registrar)
- Simon Baker (Head of CICT Project Management)
- Alan Staley (Head of the Learning Technologies Development Unit)
- Luke Millard (Project Manager, Learning and Teaching)
- Roy Felstead (Project Consultant, Systems)
- Paul Bartholomew (Technical Support Moodle)
- Simon Baker (Technical Support, SharePoint)
- Jeremy Hopkins (Technical Support, Mahara)
- Clare Portlock (Academic Process Support)
- TBA – Rebecca Freeman (interim) (Research Fellow)