{"id":713,"date":"2011-10-25T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=713"},"modified":"2011-10-25T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:27:13","slug":"better-by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"Better by design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I’m still trying to find time to rewrite S151 Maths for Science<\/em> (hence the previous posts about students’ mathematical misconceptions) I am also incredibly busy with other things. Last week I attended two external meetings, both excellent, so\u00a0I’ll take a bit of a break from the maths to talk about these.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Wednesday I was at a meeting of the JISC Learning and Teaching Practice Experts Group. I have only recently been invited to join this group, so I headed to Birmingham with some trepidation, but it was a superb meeting and I met some\u00a0inspirational people (very few of whom I’d met previously) – and everyone was friendly.\u00a0It’s difficult to pick the best from the\u00a0excellent presentations and workshops I attended, but one that has already proved useful was a session led by Alan Masson of the University of Ulster, about the Viewpoints Project. From their own blurb…’the Viewpoints Project provides practitioners with a series of simple user-friendly tools that promote a creative and effective approach to the curriculum design process.’ Simple indeed – we spent some time discussing sets of cards on ‘Good assesment and feedback practice’ (based on the REAP principles) – discussing how we would use these in curriculum planning. But it was so effective (and has already led me to use cards in planning a curriculum change of our own). And so nice to see the encouragement to plan a curriculum holistically, based on sound principles (of assessment and feedback in this case, but there were other sets of cards too, which we’d have integrated if we’d had more time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although I’m still trying to find time to rewrite S151 Maths for Science (hence the previous posts about students’ mathematical misconceptions) I am also incredibly busy with other things. Last week I attended two external meetings, both excellent, so\u00a0I’ll take … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[174,171,353,170,173,172],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curriculum-design","tag-alan-masson","tag-currciulum-design","tag-jisc","tag-reap","tag-university-of-ulster","tag-viewpoints-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}