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Principles in Patterns
In response to a number of drivers and strategic aspirations, the University of Strathclyde would like to provide more support for the process of curriculum design across its five faculties. This will be achieved by building on the principles and curriculum design models developed by the REAP (Reengineering Assessment Practices) project – developing tools to describe and evaluate those designs, with the descriptions providing the basis for the development of patterns that can be applied to curriculum design tasks in the future.
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Funding period:September 2008 to July 2012
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Curriculum Design


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Standard Comments
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Sharepoint
Use for project documentation. Demonstrator being build on SharePoint. 2012 update: Demonstrator system now being trialled. see comments section.
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lack of formal notation led to ambiguity
SmartDraw
as per Gliffy
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tool used for modelling ( http://www.intalio.com/ )
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Where most data will reside
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Dominant development language
Window workflow engine
How the processes gets driven
Windows web service
How other applications can interact with the demo system
.net
used to generate forms. 2012 update: Now using infopath instead. See comments section.
Visio
Used for modelling as have site licence - found it useful and models have been useful for stakeholder engagement.
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Comments:

Comment:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-03-20 13:48:33
The team feel that there is still a gap between the priorities of corporate IT and the integrations/toolset they have been building for course design. It is still difficult to get sustained engagement.
Comment:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-03-20 13:46:54
There are still issues around data sharing, silos, lack of consistent use of terminology etc. However, these are much more visible now and so can start to be addressed.
Comment:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-03-20 13:45:51
The team feel that despite the difficulties they have experienced , they have been able to surface many issues around the institutions approach to data collection, and their input is being recognise through other projects such as SLEEK.
Comment:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-03-20 13:43:15
The team have changed their development process for Sharepoint. They no longer use .Net and now are using infopath for all their developments as it is more sustainable. They now envisaged a set of power users and not developers in terms of future developments. They are working on producing the story of their developers journey from .Net to infopath.
Comment:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-03-20 13:39:55
Team feel that they have made considerable in-roads in terms of understandings and perceptions of business processes around curriculum design within key stakeholders. They have found the Six Sigma approach very helpful with this.
Comment:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-03-28 15:12:21
Team hoping to have a screencast of their demo system on the project website soon
Comment:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-03-28 15:11:48
Team hoping to have a version of new form with the new system available within the next two months to start trialling.
Comment:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-03-28 15:10:38
Team still working with same basic technologies - sharepoint, .net etc but are now looking more at integration with institution enterprise systems such as Oracle.
Comment:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-03-21 15:39:00
Has been some internally restructuring of project team
Comment:
Posted by wilbert at 2010-02-18 14:37:03
Currently working around forms to design the demonstrator, particularly because process and organisational context are still quite fluid at the moment. Also, working via the interface is relatively agile, and information architecture is probably the most important anyway.
Comment:
Posted by wilbert at 2009-01-30 13:04:58
Archimate removed, since the project seems more focussed on process modelling rather than anything wider.
Comment:
Posted by sam at 2009-01-29 15:19:14
Also relevant is the D4L "mapping report" which looked at common elements from the "Design for Learning" projects in terms of IMS_LD: http://dfl.cetis.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Comment:
Posted by jim.everett at 2009-01-29 13:50:31
Project Homepage and feed updated.
Other relevant standards: BPMN, IMS-LD
Comment:
Posted by wilbert at 2009-01-29 12:12:18
Archimate is an open standard for modelling institutions; their structure, their processes and both human and IT systems. It has been used by JISC enterprise architecture projects, and all Dutch universities
Comment:
Posted by wilbert at 2009-01-29 12:10:34
IMS Learning Design could be of interest as a means of modelling (not running) learning activities.
Comment:
Posted by wilbert at 2009-01-29 12:09:45
COVARM might be interesting as another take on modelling curriculum re-design processes. It has used BPMN as a modelling language. COVARM and projects built on it have prototyped document workflow tools to expedite the bureaucratic end of the course validation process.
Comment:
Posted by wilbert at 2009-01-29 12:07:34
The Liverpool John Moored EA pilot might be interesting as an example of how to establish a common picture of larger institutional processes. It has used Archimate as a language to do that.

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