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Programme and Course Design and Review Services
Who is it for?
- Institutions that lack in-house design experience or seek an external perspective.
- Institutions that do not have a network of external reviewers.
- Anyone who will benefit from an ‘external viewpoint’.
- This consultancy support ordinarily does not require a site visit, which dramatically reduces costs.
Services include:
Full curriculum design
With scalability in mind, many institutions have identified the need to design programmes and courses independently of the faculty, with the expectation that faculty will later support learners throughout their learning. Externally designed programmes can be less prone to upheaval when faculty move on and may also be better aligned with the institution’s graduate attributes.
Engagement can range from designing entire programmes and courses:
Structural elements
- Adapting graduate attributes, professional expectations and requirements to form well-structured programme learning outcomes (PLO)
- Coherence tables for PLOs and course-level intended learning outcomes (ILOs)
- Assessment strategies, assessment design rubrics, assessment tasks and marking schedules
Learning Design
- Aligning institutional learning models (or identifying one) and creating the learner journey to ensure constructive alignment is maintained.
Programme and validation documentation
- Localised documentation that meets quality assurance guidelines
Learning content within any given virtual learning environment
- Teaching and learning content can be designed for projects where I have carried out all previous steps. This allows institutions to be able to facilitate learning around a core set of resources.
- (Some disciplines and professional contexts are excluded.)
Review and Guidance
You may already have a complete set of documentation that requires external review before internal validation at your institution.
You will be required to send all supporting documents (Institutional Handbooks, General Academic Regulations, Teaching and Assessment Policies, Quality Assurance Guidelines) as PDFs (no hard copies) or as accessible web links. I will then align the programme with international best practice using the 8-stage learning design model and provide detailed guidance.