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Transforming Curriculum to
Improve Student Experience
UNIT4 User Group Manchester | April 2012
Professor Mark Stubbs
Head of Learning & Research Technologies
m.stubbs@mmu.ac.uk | http://twitter.com/thestubbs
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Student Experience | EQAL | Moodle mega-mashup
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Student Experience: mixed?
And how do I assure you
you find the parts of it are
student excellent !
experience?
Learning
Learning
Environment
Environment
Corporate Systems
Admin Systems 2

3. Student Experience: varied?
35,000+ students
1,000 + courses
1,500+ tutors
7 sites
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4. Student Experience: declining?

5. Doing something about it…
In the current climate
Diminishing unit of resource
Everything depends on everything else
We are large and risk averse

6. “Who dares wins”
 In the current climate
?
vc Diminishing unit of resource
θ
Everything depends on everything else
We are large and risk averse

7. EQAL
In the current climate
• A coordinated strike for step-change improvement Diminishing unit of resource
New Curriculum Everything depends on everything else
• designing new units, … We are large and risk averse
New Admin Systems & Processes
• personal timetabling, …
New Virtual Learning Environment
• Moodle & myMMU web/mobile, …
New QA & QE Processes
• facilitating curriculum transformation

8. Simplified Unit (module) web forms

9. New Units Data flow
Custom Agresso
Tables Students

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Getting the experience back
Learning
Environment
Admin Systems
New Systems,
Processes & VLE
Admin Systems

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Wrapping the institution around the learner
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Student ID
Timetable
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Student ID (+ Unit code)
Hand-in dates / extensions / marks
Personalised submission sheet
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Unit code
Resource list
Relevant resource
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Unit code
Past exam papers
Past exam paper
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16. Find out more about…
• Our initial drive for responsive curricula
– http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/29224166/Supporting%20Resp
onsive%20Curricula%20%28SRC%29%20project
– http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/src/
• MMU’s EQAL curriculum transformation
– http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/eqal/index.php
• Our review of learning technologies
– http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/ltreview
• How we built our integrated VLE
– http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/w2c
• Where we’re going next with Assessment & Feedback
– http://lrt.mmu.ac.uk/traffic/