Course and Programme Continuity Project
What is the project?
The University is working to ensure that our learning and teaching can respond to changes and disruption and find opportunities to enhance our teaching and learning experience.
CAD, alongside CLL, Disability Services, Student Learning and The Library, are guiding the Course and Programme Continuity project within the wider University Resilience Project.
The Course and Programme Continuity project will ensure that our digital learning environment, and the teaching practice it supports, is designed in a way that allows for an immediate and measured response to disruption of any nature. It will also develop staff and student capability to shift between face to face and online modes of delivery when key continuity plans are enacted to respond to three possible levels of disruption:
CAD, alongside CLL, Disability Services, Student Learning and The Library, are guiding the Course and Programme Continuity project within the wider University Resilience Project.
The Course and Programme Continuity project will ensure that our digital learning environment, and the teaching practice it supports, is designed in a way that allows for an immediate and measured response to disruption of any nature. It will also develop staff and student capability to shift between face to face and online modes of delivery when key continuity plans are enacted to respond to three possible levels of disruption:
The project aims to review and develop courses to enhance their flexibility and assess opportunities to enhance our learning and teaching experience with digital tools and creative teaching practice.
It is expected to continue through to the end of T3 2021 and provide an iterative approach to continuity improvement across all programmes and courses. The initial phase of this project will focus on improving the online experience and resilience of courses planned for Trimester Two 2020.
Who will be involved?
A broad team, led by CAD, from across support units and from within the faculties will be working on this project to ensure that Faculty specific knowledge and requirements are developed within this process. Throughout this process we will be building a network of staff working on teaching resilience from across the University to encourage sharing ideas and information, supporting each other and enhancing ongoing capabilities.
Academic and professional staff involved in Trimester 2 courses will be included in the first stage of the project as well as some student reps from the Faculty or Ako in Action programme.
Academic and professional staff involved in Trimester 2 courses will be included in the first stage of the project as well as some student reps from the Faculty or Ako in Action programme.
What’s involved?
The project will start by reviewing Blackboard course design, course curriculum design for digital teaching, and assessment evaluation for all T2 courses being offered.
There are three workshops to guide staff through the review and development of teaching resilience.
Each of these workshops will be run as collaborative working groups where staff are tasked with bringing together information about their courses, working with the project team to develop material and establishing an action list to be completed with faculty staff to get courses ready for teaching in Trimester two.
Part of the process will involve staff being enrolled in an example Blackboard course 'Toiere' to help share standard practice and refresh capabilities with Blackboard course configuration and setup. This will be a Faculty resource to be able to share good practice examples and refresh understanding of Blackboard course development.
There are three workshops to guide staff through the review and development of teaching resilience.
- Templates and standards design workshop. This focuses on the use of modern templates and standards in delivering student-centric online courses.
- Course, activity and feedback design workshop. This overviews how to structure course content online, so it is intuitive for students, supports their learning and matches the flow of the face to face offering of the course.
- Assessment workshop. Reviewing and planning for resilient assessment practice and outcomes in T2.
Each of these workshops will be run as collaborative working groups where staff are tasked with bringing together information about their courses, working with the project team to develop material and establishing an action list to be completed with faculty staff to get courses ready for teaching in Trimester two.
Part of the process will involve staff being enrolled in an example Blackboard course 'Toiere' to help share standard practice and refresh capabilities with Blackboard course configuration and setup. This will be a Faculty resource to be able to share good practice examples and refresh understanding of Blackboard course development.
