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SRC

Supporting Responsive Curricula

The Supporting Responsive Curricula (SRC) Project will pilot agile, demand-led curriculum design processes that promote flexible delivery and enhance learner employability. SRC will break new ground in curriculum interoperability, piloting the “tagging” of curriculum with competences valued by employers and professional bodies to support informed choice about study options and assist learners in choosing electives to support their career intentions and in showcasing their experience and abilities for a professional audience.

	100% complete Project Completed Funding period:September 2008 to July 2012 Source: elearning capitalelearning capital		Organisations: Manchester Metropolitan University
	Tags: Curriculum Design elearning

Related Projects

Builds on	Comments
ioNW2
See also	Comments
COVARM
ePistle / Pebblepad
W2C	Part of wider MMU project too
ENABLE	sharing of information/experiences

Standards

Standard	Comments
XCRI	in project plan. 2012 update: Institutional capability for XCRI but not using as core part of this project
HR-XML	in project plan - 2012 update: was being used mainly in the law school, not project wide
LEAP 2.0	in project plan 2012 update: system capability but not core part of this project
Archimate	investigating use 2012 update: used by consultant in stakeholder engagment process for QA processes, maps included in Baseline Report and
IMS_RCDEO	in project plan 2012 update: system capability but not core part of project
HEAR	related to project but no direct outputs as yet 2012: as before.

Technologies

Sharepoint	used for student portal - development part of wider institutional project - may recontact Uni of South Queensland about comptency integration. 2012 update: not used for curriculum database, but part of wider institutional system..
Agresso SRS	student record system. 2012 update: as before
Moodle	instituion switching to moodle 2010/11. 2012 update: Migration completed and has had very postive reaction from staff and students. Now automatic udpateds from new course template to instanation of courese in Moodle.
Agresso	academic database. 2012 update: still main course database
TalentonView	bespoke eportfolio system being trialled in Business School. Issues with scalablity of system: 2012 update: Institutional decision taken for Mahara to be centrally provided and supporting eportfolio system. Will go live September 2013
Mahara	Institution buying licence for Mahara, hoping to evaluate use in SRC: bespoke eportfolio system being trialled in Business School. Issues with scalablity of system: 2012 update: Institutional decision taken for Mahara to be centrally provided and supporting eportfolio system. Will go live September 2013
Flip cams	Used for recording student evaluation. 2012 update used exensively to record student reflection as part of project evaluation.
Pebblepad	eporfolio tool used in core courses in Business school, probably will not be used in other faculties. bespoke eportfolio system being trialled in Business School. Issues with scalablity of system: 2012 update: Institutional decision taken for Mahara to be centrally provided and supporting eportfolio system. Will go live September 2013. If department want to continue to use PebblePad they will have to pay from their budget.

Links to e-framework

Framework	Comments
COVARM SUM

Comments:

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-03-12 13:48:43

Project outcomes are well placed in terms of sustainability as many of them e.g. updated course forms, are already embedded in institutional workflows.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-03-12 13:47:38

The institution is focusing on making best use of the systems they have in place at the moment and is not planning any additional system upgrades/migrations.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-03-12 13:46:16

SRC is part of a wider process and system integrations at MMU eg. the W2C project. Many of the technical integrations are part of the wider 'mega mash' approach.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-03-12 13:44:43

Institutional decision to go with Mahara as the centrally provided e-porfolio decision has been taken. The system will go live in September 2013. Departments such as Physiotherapy who currently use PebblePad can continue to use, but will have to pay for it from their own budget and won't get central support.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-03-11 09:06:31

There is institutional agreement of 8 graduate learning outcomes, however team now grappling with how to integrate existing competency frameworks into the institutional database. Team likely to work with Simon Grant over the next year on competency issues.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-03-11 09:03:14

New course template being used for undergraduate courses and as part of the institutional Equal project. There is now automatic population of moodle modules from the course database.

Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-03-11 09:00:43

Good progress has been made in developing and setting up the academic course database, a new course description form has also be approved. The next step is to develop a workflow. Hoping to use Archimate for modelling and run more workshops to engage key stakeholders, particularly in QA dept.

Posted by SheilaMacneill at 2010-04-26 14:09:18

All requirements and models will be made publicly available via the SRC blog/website and where appropriate the Design Studio.

Posted by SheilaMacneill at 2010-04-26 14:04:03

Have postponed decision on eportfolio system until January 2011. Continuing to work with existing systems Pepplepad and inhouse "talentonview" cv/showcase tool. Team need to consider cost/benefits of adopting institution wide system v maintaining/supporting inhouse systems. In terms of the digital media course, the employers there don't want institutional systems with student's work, they want to see student created work "live" on the web in non-institutionally branded sites.

Posted by SheilaMacneill at 2010-04-26 14:01:21

Now reviewing all course templates in terms of their wider requirements gathering process for curriculum management system with respect to core data - where and how it is stored/linked/managed.

Posted by SheilaMacneill at 2010-04-26 13:59:25

Key issues around developing curriculum mapping tool:
*will they use agresso tool?
*will they make more use of sharepoint? (possibly based on University of South Queensland model)
*will they develop a hybrid of the two

Posted by SheilaMacneill at 2010-04-26 13:56:55

About to start requirements gathering phase for new curriculum management system. A series of user workshops starts this week (April 2010) with consultant. Process will be documented and shared. Archimate models will be produced. Requirements will be approved by strategy group in early July 2010.

Posted by SheilaMacneill at 2010-04-26 13:53:33

Project subsumed somewhat by new institution wide curriculum revamp project. This is based in no small way on impact of SRC work. Team have just had an "extraordinary" steering group meeting to revise project plan in light of wider institutional project.

Posted by SheilaMacneill at 2010-04-26 13:53:33

Posted by wilbert at 2009-02-05 14:46:53

Looking at a major exercise in extracting XCRI CAP information from sets of Word documents.

Posted by wilbert at 2009-02-05 14:39:53

COVARM was looked at, but was a little too detailed for the purposes of the project.

Posted by wilbert at 2009-02-05 14:35:29

Baseline in archimate is under way at the moment

Posted by wilbert at 2009-02-05 14:31:04

Initial look at IMS/IEEE RCDEO suggests that what's really required is an element that indicates that a competence is _not_ like another competence

Posted by wilbert at 2009-02-05 12:23:26

PebblePad is the eportfolio system that SRC will use to gather competency information. Export out again in HR-XML will be addressed later