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PiP presenting at the JISC Online Conference 2011

Those of you that follow the PiP blog and are registered for the JISC Online Conference ("Innovating e-Learning 2011: Learning in Transition"...

posted 17 November 2011 by George MacGregor

Reflecting on evaluation: JISC Curriculum Design Programme meeting

The JISC Curriculum Design Programme meeting was held in Nottingham last week.  As a new addition to the PiP team the event was a useful way of a...

posted 21 October 2011 by George MacGregor

Welcome to a new member of the PiP Team

 George Macgregor joins the PiP team.

posted 10 October 2011 by Jim Everett

PiP and EQAL: some reflections on the approaches taken by Strathclyde and Manchester Metropolitan Universities

On 12 May I was lucky enough to be able to spend some time with Mark Stubbs (@thestubbs) in Manchester talking about the MMU Unit Collector developed as part of the EQAL project and PiP course and class approval system.  There were a number of interesting similarities between the two developments, but also some significant differences in approach and organisational context.

posted 21 September 2011 by Jim Everett

PiP & SLEEK (Strathclyde's LEAN approach to Efficiencies in Education)

PiP & SLEEK working together to achieve process excellence in course and class approval Many organisations have identified Business Process Revie...

posted 19 August 2011 by Donna Cullen

Future Directions for XCRI: discussion at the JISC Curriculum Design Programme Meeting May 2010

 Following on from the session on Managing Course Information at the JISC Curriculum Design Programme Meeting May 2010 I chaired a discussion on ...

posted 14 May 2010 by Jim Everett

"Managing Programme Information": PiP and OULDI Project Session at the JISC Curriculum Design Programme Meeting May 2010

What are the big issues associated with managing curriculum information?  Jim Everett from the PiP team at the University of Strathclyde and Simo...

posted 12 May 2010 by Catherine Owen

PiP Project Demo Session at JISC Conference 12-13 April 2010

Members of the PiP team will be presenting a demonstration under the title Curriculum Approval with Flexibility and Consistency at the forthcoming JIS...

posted 31 March 2010 by

Resources to support effective assessment and feedback at the University of Strathclyde

PiP project team members have created a set of resources to support the design of learning tasks in the area of assessment and feedback at t...

posted 13 January 2010 by James Everett

Supporting Curriculum Design at Task, Module and Programme Level

The PiP (www.principlesinpatterns.ac.uk) team, in collaboration with our colleagues at the University of Ulster and the Open University, created a sym...

posted 22 September 2009 by Catherine Owen

Inclusive Learning: Maximising Opportunities and Minimising Risks

Accessibility and inclusivity in our learning and teaching output is of particular interest to colleagues in the Centre for Academic Practice and Lear...

posted 21 July 2009 by Catherine Owen

Engaging and Responding to Learners Workshop

Location: United Kingdom, Maple House, Birmingham Date: 25/6/2009 The workshop was based on the outcomes of the nine JISC funded Learner Experience ...

posted 26 June 2009 by Jim Everett

Visit from the Viewpoints Team from the University of Ulster

We were delighted to welcome Alan Masson and Fiona Doherty from the Viewpoints team from the University of Ulster to visit us again last week.  A...

posted 16 June 2009 by Catherine Owen

Design Cluster C Symposium Accepted for ALT-C!!

A symposium on the respresentation and support of curriculum design, hosted by the three projects comprising Cluster C of the Design Programme (Univer...

posted 08 June 2009 by Catherine Owen

Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design Cluster Group CAMEL Meeting, April 2009

The Principles in Patterns project team at the University of Strathclyde were delighted to host the first CAMEL meeting for Cluster Group C, which als...

posted 28 May 2009 by

ArchiMate packages and resources

Packages the support ArchiMate SmartDraw allows you to create diagrams using the ArchiMate symbol set but this is not really the reusability that the...

posted 27 February 2009 by Jim Everett

Modelling with Archimate and SmartDraw

We have decided to focus on Archimate as the modelling language/standard for the Project.  I have been investigating the various options availabl...

posted 27 February 2009 by Jim Everett

Process Flow Workshop

The Process Flow Workshop held in Birmingham before Christmas was a useful exercise. It provided examples for documenting and evaluating existing proc...

posted 18 December 2008 by Donna Cullen

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