Curriculum by Design

1. Professor Marnie Hughes-WarringtonAko Victoria 19 February 2010 Curriculum by Design

2. External Drivers • John Key’s speech 10 February: • Attrition rates • Program quality • Employability of graduates • School sector: standards agenda • National degree registration process finalised by NZQA • Revision of the Australian Qualifications Framework • Change in student funding model • National standards project and new standards agency • ESOS registration

3. Internal Drivers / Discipline Drivers • We haven’t studied this yet

4. First Rankings ALTC, N=1455 Presence of the Past, N=900

5. Internal Drivers • The first year experience and retention • The bounds of choice • Space constraints and space planning • Vision?

6. n= 101141, 29 institutions

8. Online Learning

9. No one knows my name… I don’t know my tutor’s name…

10. How do we design curriculum? • ‘Design’ is the key point • Framing/vision, critical friends • ‘pruning and planting’ • Framing is both about content and about the ways in which we teach

11. Speaking via curriculum

16. Statements of Educational Strength and Priority • In studio, a student creates a work, usually in a room with many other students. Some studios involve intensive intervention by staff while others tend to defer feedback till a designated phase of critical review. The artistic input of the student is integral to the learning process. In studios, the students are not passive recipients of knowledge projected by an authority; instead, they exercise their faculties of making in order to learn. • Interprofessional learning, simulation, virtual environments