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Describing the curriculum
Representations of the curriculum from activity to whole course level
This cloudscape summarises the work undertaken as part of the OU Learning Design Initiative and associated JISC Curriculum Design project. It also links into the institutional work on Course Business Models. These include:
- Design lifecycle
- Task Swin-line representation
- Pedagogy profile
- Course map
- Financial view
- Course performance
- Curriculum maps
- Design assistant
Related resources
- Blog post on course representations
- Earlier thoughts on curriculum representation from the JISC Curriculum Design Cluster C projects
Acknowledgements
This work is part of both the OU Learning Desing Initiative (which is both strategically funded as well as supported as part of the JISC Curriculum Design programme) and the OU's Course Business Models projects. Team members:
- OULDI: Andrew Brasher, Paul Clark, Gráinne Conole, Simon Cross, Rebecca Galley, Juliette Culver, Paul Mundin
- OU Course Business Models Project: Gráinne Conole, Mick Jones, James Fleck, Christine Lau, Paul Mundin, Andrew Russell, Tony Walton
Clouds in this Cloudscape
- Activity: 40mins: Visualisation activity (2 comments)
- Curriculum design representations (2 comments)
- Discussion: What representations of the curriculum are you using? (1 comment)
- Pedagogy profile/Activity profile (3 comments)
- Poster: 5 design views (1 comment)
- Resource: Course dimensions (2 comments)
- Resource: Course map (1 comment)
- Resource: Course performance
- Resource: Curriculum mapping
- Resource: Design decision assistant
- Resource: Design Lifecycle
- Resource: Finance view (1 comment)
- Resource: Five-category course map representation (2 comments)
- Resource: Task swim-line representation
Cloudstream
- "The Pedagogy Profiler is a user-friendly and helpful tool. Thanks a million....
added to Pedagogy profile/Activity profile by Helen Guerin on 26 January 2013 - "I've just added a link to an updated Excel version. there are 3 worksheets 'Predict', 'As is', 'To...
added to Pedagogy profile/Activity profile by Rebecca Galley on 5 March 2012 - Pedagogy profile in Excel
added to Pedagogy profile/Activity profile by Rebecca Galley on 5 March 2012 - Course/module Map Excel template (includes blank template and example worksheet)
added to Resource: Course map by Rebecca Galley on 15 November 2011 - "Hi, Rebecca
Kindly find attached the course map and pedagogy profiler in the form of...
added to Resource: Course map by Kleio Akrivou on 14 January 2011 - "Good Morning,
This is very interesting. I am very new to Cloudworks; can I get further...
added to Resource: Finance view by Chris Garbett on 16 November 2010 - "It's good to see all the course visualisations on one page like this. I think the Pedagogy Profiler...
added to Poster: 5 design views by Santanu Vasant on 23 July 2010 - Poster: 5 design views
new embedded content added to the cloud Poster: 5 design views by Rebecca Galley on 19 July 2010 - Poster: 5 design views
cloud added to the cloudscape Describing the curriculum by Rebecca Galley on 19 July 2010 - Course dimensions views
new embedded content added to the cloud Resource: Course dimensions by Gráinne Conole on 28 February 2010
