Should it be of use, you may want to get hold of a book which is helpfully called 'Curriculum Design' and was written by David Pratt. 1980 (old but tried and tested) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich New York. It looks at the process of design, but also addresses how to select and involve stakeholders. It was pretty standard literature in northern Europe for curriculum design across all levels of education, and maybe it is also of use to you?

From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott, Bernard
Sent: 05 October 2006 14:17
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A bit of irony here, John. I developed some resources of the kind you describe when working for UHI. The website I created - the Online Learning Knowledge Garden - disappeared after I left in 2002. With the agreement of UHI, I rebadged the site for use here. See http://olkg.cranfield.ac.uk/.

Dr Bernard Scott
Head of Flexible Learning
Cranfield University
Defence Academy
Shrivenham
Wilts SN6 8LA
Fax +44 (0) 1793 783746
Tel +44 (0) 1793 785120
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http://olkg.cranfield.ac.uk/bcescott/

From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Casey
Sent: 05 October 2006 12:44
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I would like to add my voice to a request for further info about any of these items. I have been doing some work on visual course design aids with 3 universities, and would be very grateful for any info in this connection to add to what we are doing. It is the area of 'semi-formal' designs that I am working in, helping academics articulate their plans and strategies in order to produce more formal designs. This is particularly in the context of course design for flexibe and e-learning approaches where people experience problems in visualising the 'big picture' and differences to existing practice and implications. Our work is informed by the developments of the IMS Learning Design Specification community - but is resolutely lo-tech in approach.

If anyone is interested in sharing to create a set of freely available resources and tools (that is where we are headed) I would be very interested to hear from them.

In relation to this - I would also be interested in key generic resources that colleagues have found particularly useful on curriculum/course design/redesign - we are redeveloping our PG Cert course design module, and are also about to develop a university-wide course design support 'tool'...

Ali Cooper
Professional and Educational Development Adviser
Programme Director for Certificate in Academic Practice (CAP)
Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT)
Room A 61 Bowland North
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster LA1 4YT
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tel: (01524 5) 93441
fax: 01524 594748
Professional Programmes website: <http://domino.lancs.ac.uk/CELT/profprog.nsf
CELT website: http://luvle.lancs.ac.uk/celtweb

From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah.Moore
Sent: 04 October 2006 11:30
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This year I have been receiving a lot of requests from course leaders, Deans and heads of department for some structured help with curriculum development and redesign. While we are putting together a professional development programme from keen developers within our own University and throughout the sector in the Irish context, I'd be very grateful if any of you could point me in the direction of really good tried and tested expertise/ trainers/facilitators in the UK or further afield. In particular, if you can recommend someone with specific expertise in curriculum development and redesign in the Humanities disciplines, that would be very useful.