• 5:30 Refreshments + OU handout ‘Learn about learning design’

• 6:00 What is 13 Things?

• 6:20 Activity: top ten ways to ruin a course

• 6:50 How the programme will work

• 7:00 Thing One!

• 7:30 Fin

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Wednesday, 22 June 2011

13 (Curriculum Design) Things Kickoff meeting

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

We’re really happy you’re interested in 13 Things, thank you for making time for us. Most of the programme is going to be online, but we think its important to meet up in the flesh. We want you to leave this meeting knowing why we’re running the programme, what you’ve signed up for, and what you might get out of it.

What is 13 Things?

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Probably easiest to explain with an example. We shamelessly pinched the idea from the UL, who ran 23Things about web technologies for librarians last year. ‘Things’ get posted on the programme blog one at a time, each with an introduction and a suggestion for a short ‘hands on’ exercise.13 Things is different because 1. it’s about curriculum design tools 2. it’s not a course! These are tools we’ve been told other people have found useful, we’ve tried to pick ones we think look good, but your feedback is the point of the whole exercise: what you tell us will influence how we try to support curriculum designers at Cambridge. Most of the things are about designing curricula, but one or two are tools you might use delivering a course.

Why Curriculum Design?

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Wednesday, 22 June 2011

JISC Institution approaches to curriculum design October 2008 - April 2012OU project (OULDI) creating various tools, testing them out at other universities (Reading, Brunel, LSBU, Cam)Cambridge project (CourseTools) aiming to make it easier and faster to innovate in courses.University Council report: CARET’s primary role will be “to provide a focus for support of innovation in teaching and learning including the investigation and development of new technologies, advice on pedagogical issues, and engagement with the academic community to support new teaching methods”.

Activity: Top ten ways to ruin a course

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Facilitator: jots ideas on post-it notes, sticks them on large sheet of paper on table, after ~5min asks participants to group and rank them

What will I get out of it?

• contacts

• ideas

• tools

• the warm glow of helping us!

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Everyone seems to have a pretty good idea what they wanted to get out of 13 thingsContacts - also interested in curriculum design and teaching and learningIdeas - you may be able to use in your own teachingtools - may be some you find helpful in putting together and reviewing your designswarm glow - of helping us find out what kinds of things might we could usefully offer other Cambridge teaching staff

How 13 Things will run

• Kickoff

• 7 weeks starting next week

• 2 Things a week

• Halfway Hall

• Gala prizegiving

• Thing One!

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

2 things a week - quite demanding so we’ll try our best to make it easy for youEach Thing will feature an introduction to get you up and running and a small exercise to get your hands on itEach participant blogs their reflections: impressions before and after, what workedFeel free to do as much or as little as necessaryWe won’t be strict about deadlinesThere will be prizes for best post and best blog

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