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These slides support a workshop at the 2010 JISC-CETIS conference on integrating and subverting corporate systems for educational purposes. They focus in particular on lessons drawn from a major curriculum transformation project at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK.
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Monday, April 10, 2023 1
Integrating Corporate Systems for Educational Purposes: lessons from MMU
Professor Mark StubbsHead of Learning & Research Technologies
[email protected] | http://twitter.com/thestubbs
http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/w2c #jiscdvle
http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/src #jisccdd
What we are learning from JISC CDD‘Many problems with the management of course-related information can be put down to the fact that this is still a document-based rather than a data-based system (and paper-based at most institutions). This gives rise to duplication of effort and of information, lack of version control, poor re-use of relevant information for different purposes, and a tendency for information to be designed for approval rather than any other purpose.’
• BCU is concerned with capturing the ‘lived experience’ of curriculum design
• Strathclyde and the Open University are exploring how to represent the curriculum in a way that can be reused to meet the needs of various stakeholders
• MMU identified representations of curricula as a barrier to responsive provision
Adapted from Sarah Knight’s 2010 JISC Curriculum Design & Delivery Reflections
Barriers | Dependencies
Event Name and Venue 3
QAA commend our robust processes
We keep it vague to avoid tortuous QA
Practice is too varied to systematise
We struggle to interpret vague QA docs
We can’t get concrete details on courses for website, so maintain our own
Student Records QA
Marketing Course Teams
Central systems don’t support local variety so we build our own
Why do marketing never have up-to-date info about our courses
Solution | Change Everything!
Scope of MMU Change Programme...• Curriculum Framework• Admin Systems + Business Processes• Seamless Student Access• Quality Processes
Implications...• New rules for Curriculum (30 Credit, max 5 LOs...)• Every UG course & module will be re-written
– Entirely new first year goes live September 2011 !
Barrier | Joined-up Imagination
• Co-designing an alternative to the status quo• Blending specialist expertise without blinkers!
Student Records+ Enrolment+ Transcript (HEAR)
QA / QE+ Definitive documents+ Annual monitoring
Marketing+ Prospectus+ UCAS
Curriculum Innovation+ Learning Outcome mapping+ Competence development
CurriculumDatabase
Solution | Creative Dialogue
• Scenarios• Rapid Prototyping• Multi-stakeholder walk-through workshops• Enterprise Architect know-how
– Understand how islands of info can be joined– Ensure identifiers are in place for integration– Remember: new interfaces might enable new practice– Build buy-in by demonstrating that the integrated
approach works!
Monday, April 10, 2023
VLEenrolments
Submissions
enrolments + hand-ins Student
Records
Timetable
enrolments+ tut groups
specs + linkages
CourseRecords
enrolments
skill mappings
Portfolio
active units
Library
Understand how islands can be joined
Unit Spec Unit Instance
Assessment Element
Spec
Assessment Element Instance
Assessment Element Hand-in +
Marks
Unit Enrolments
Course SpecCourseYear
InstanceCourse
Enrolments
Course Structure
AssessmentStructure
Student Details
Student RecordCourse Record
Ensure identifiers in place for integration
apis.mmu
CourseRecords
BusinessIntelligence
Data Feeds
StudentRecords
Financials
Timetable
LibraryCatalogue
OldVLE
MobileApps
NewVLE
Email +Calendar
DigitalCollectionsReading
Lists
Demonstrate the approach works
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Integrating Corporate Systems for Educational Purposes: lessons from MMU
Professor Mark StubbsHead of Learning & Research Technologies
[email protected] | http://twitter.com/thestubbs
http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/w2c #jiscdvle
http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/src #jisccdd
