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JISC accreditation: making the right moves for responsive course design and approval

Marianne Sheppard, JISC Advance

Rachel Forsyth, Manchester Metropolitan University

Nicola Whitton, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Curriculum design

JISC project: Supporting Responsive Curricula.

• Responsiveness: The ability to recognise change drivers, and to make changes, in a timely manner.

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Planting Ideas

• Stakeholder workshops used scenarios to prompt discussion.

• This highlighted barriers to responsiveness: culture and processes.

• Outcomes were used:– to press for changes in processes.– to design staff development materials to help with

discussion about culture.

Image: model of responsiveness

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Curriculum design and approval

• Usually causes stress and confusion –two of the barriers to responsiveness.

• Curriculum tools devised – to simplify planning – to encourage debate.

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1 – Planning cards• Encourage discussion• We can throw in wildcards• Very popular with staff• Easier to try out ideas than

with paper documents• Can be used with mixed academic/admin teams to

highlight implications of change (eg admin, timetabling)

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2 – Accreditation! The game

• Encourages discussion about any frustrations about processes

• More effective than explaining the process via presentations?

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Playing the game

• Play in pairs or as individuals• Read out dilemmas to other players: don’t read

out option consequences until they’ve chosen• Keep handy any card which strikes a particular

chord for later discussion• You need five quality stars to proceed into

another zone

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Summary

• Variety of techniques needed to get effective discussion;

• These techniques encourage collection of examples and scenarios;

• Need to involve mixed groups of planners, programmers, administrative and academic staff

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Availability

Game is available on Creative Commons licence:

http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/44087950/Accreditation!