1. Friday, March 18, 2022 1
Supporting Responsive Curricula (SRC)
Piloting agile, demand-oriented curriculum design processes
that promote flexible delivery & enhance learner
employability
SRC is funded by the JISC’s 05/08 Curriculum Design Programme.
Executive Sponsor: Prof Kevin Bonnett, DVC Student Experience
Principal Investigator: Prof Mark Stubbs, Head of Learning & Research Tech
Project Manager: Peter Bird
http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/src

2. Employability
+ Responsiveness
SRC
Friday, March 18, 2022 2
Showcasing
Talent
Mapping &
(Re)Designing
Curricula
Sign-posting
Development
Opportunities
Re-balancing
Q for Agility:
QA  QE
Students
Course
Teams
Employers
Prof Bodies

3. SRC
• Benchmarking
– Curriculum Design & Approval
– Interpretations of Responsiveness
• Establishing Pilots
– Creative Digital
– Financial Services
– Law
– Physiotherapy
Friday, March 18, 2022 3
EQAL new + improved
Curriculum Framework
Admin Sys + Processes
Online Access
Quality Processes
Institutional
Transformation
Innovative
Pioneers

4. Benchmarking | Challenges
Friday, March 18, 2022
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

5. Academic DB
• Co-designing the missing system for joined-up working
Student Records
+ Enrolment
+ Transcript (HEAR)
QA / QE
+ Definitive documents
+ Annual monitoring
Marketing
+ Prospectus
+ UCAS
Curriculum Innovation
+ Learning Outcome mapping
+ Delivering Graduate Outcomes
Curriculum
Database

6. Academic DB | Unit Spec
Friday, March 18, 2022 MLE Workshop, Aytoun Library Seminar Room
2009-05-13 14:00
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7. Academic DB | Unit Instance
Friday, March 18, 2022 MLE Workshop, Aytoun Library Seminar Room
2009-05-13 14:00
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Unit Spec
Unit Instance
Unit ID, Title
Course-Unit Linkage
Assessment Template
...
Activities to Timetable
Hand-in Dates
...

8. Academic DB | Embedding
Friday, March 18, 2022 MLE Workshop, Aytoun Library Seminar Room
2009-05-13 14:00
8
Interim
MMU-
written
system
Agresso
Curriculum
Mgt
System
Unit Spec
Unit Instance
Web forms MMU
AcDB
Reqts
Other
Client
Reqts