Flexible support for course administration
(Course Tools was formerly known as Curriculum Design.)
The Course Tools project supports University lecturers and administrative staff in creating and updating courses, creating administrative tools to allow fast and flexible access to course information and planning.
In our pathfinder project with the Natural Science Tripos, lecturers and administrators are currently working with project members to choose the areas they feel will benefit most from the introduction of software.
Between 2009 and 2013, the project will develop tools which will ultimately be available for use across the University.
All members of the University are very warmly invited to contribute their suggestions for aspects of development and reviewing courses for the project team to investigate. To make suggestions, please contact Dr Amyas Phillips (amyas.phillips@caret.cam.ac.uk).
Over the course of the project, we will explore the potential benefits of administrative software tools to University members, and investigate the drawbacks. Our research methodology is designed to take account not only of technical implementation issues but also of complexities of the institutional settings and the pedagogic process.
As part of the project, we will evaluate the potential of Kuali Student, a student information system designed by a number of Universities in collaboration, to meet the needs of Cambridge staff and students.
The project is funded by JISC.
JISC supports UK further & higher education and research by
providing leadership in the use of Information and Communications
Technology in support of learning, teaching, research and
administration. JISC receives funding from all the UK further and
higher education funding councils.
