Meeting dates

Cut and paste from Clive's post on the other internal site.

More CPC Meetings:

• 7 March 1:00-2:00 pm in L207 - to agree aims and programme outcomes [final aims and draft programme outcomes will be circulated and posted here before the meeting]
• 14 March 1:00-2:00 pm in L207 - to agree on lists of reusable units and new units, to review teaching, learning and assessment strategy and to review the current state of the rationale
• 3 April 1:00-2:00 pm in L301 - to agree the teaching, learning and assessment strategy, the unit proformas, the curriculum map, the timetables for delivery of the units for all proposed courses and to review the draft Rationale and the draft Resources Document
• 18 April 1:00-2:00 pm in L301 - to agree final forms of all documents (they need to be submitted 21 April)

Course Planning - latest

Clive met with John and Sally on the 21st February. This was the initial planning for the validation. They agreed the following:

• the deadline for documents is 21st April 2008
  
• the documents to be produced for that date are
  
• the Rationale,
  
• the Programme Specification,
  
• the Resources Document
  
• the Units
  
• the validation will consider the full-time, sandwich and top-up degrees and for the part-time streams including the top-up stream
• the names of two nominees for external membership of the validation panel

Validation date

We now have a validation date of Wednesday May 21st 2008. The aims have been locked for the time being so that we can move on to other tasks that need to be done. We know that they aren't written in stone though and we accept some changes might be necessary. However, for the time being we're acting as if they are the ones we want.

Social tech units

I suppose I can mention here that two of the units which perhaps one day will be used in the Soc Tech course are now up and running... sort of. One unit - the level 3 unit recruited sufficiently to run and has now a cohort of enthusiastic if sometimes bemused students studying on it. I find myself on a steep learning curve with new technologies popping up frequently or old ones taking a sudden new turn. We're currently trying to develop materials that will be passed on to the future generation of social technology students. We're reluctant to go down the route of developing a text book and instead we're building wikis and blogs to try to keep a history of what is occurring around us and to offer definition where that is now just about possible. And the ideas keep pouring in. I think that finding ways of teaching and assessing soc tech units will be immensely interesting and rewarding.

I ought to mention too that I have now a small grant to help develop some of the ideas that will be used on the Soc Tech course.

Meeting January 23rd 2008

We've been working on the aims of the course for the last couple of months. At a meeting in January which I wasn't present at (exam invigilation!) the aims were discussed at length and a draft version produced for the more public meeting on 23rd. There Clive asked us all to choose the aims we thought were the most important. We weren't asked to prioritise them, simply to put our marks where we thought the main aims should be and to indicate if anything vital had been excluded from the draft aims.

From the list that was drawn up at the evening meeting a final draft of the aims has now been produced and is currently available for comment on the Drupal Soc Tech site. Anyone reading the blog who would like to be involved in the development of the course should contact one of us as the Drupal site is by invitation and registration only :-)

Work is progressing on the course. We are all pleased at the amount of enthusiasm which is being generated by the new course and we feel that we are indeed onto something.