Integrative Technologies Project

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The University of Exeter Business School Integrative Technologies Project was a JISC funded Curriculum Delivery Project run under the Transforming Curriculum Design and Delivery Through Technology Programme.

The project was led by University of Exeter

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The project addressed the educational challenges faced by the University of Exeter's flagship Business School as it entered a phase of considerable student expansion and international diversification. The Business School anticipates growth in student numbers in the region of 250% by 2014, with approximately 40% of those students coming from international backgrounds.

It is mission-critical for the University that the Business School continues to provide an excellent educational experience for all throughout this expansion and technology is envisaged as playing a major role in this. To this end, school staff and students, collaborating with the University’s Education Enhancement Unit, were involved in designing and delivering a ‘step change’ so that technology is used to enhance learning across all aspects of the curriculum.

Impact and benefits to the community

(taken from project final report)

Following the two years of the INTEGRATE project, a number of technologies which had not previously been used at Exeter are now part of the way of working in the Business School.
The Business School Teaching Fellows (encouraged by a few extremely dedicated and committed individuals) now collectively have a range of strategies to help with teaching large cohorts of diverse students. Staff are becoming increasingly skilled at using technology in their modules, have been sharing their own experience and finding new and innovative ways of working. The growing body of Business School Teaching Fellows are at the forefront of developing the student learning experience at Exeter and all students in the Business School, both Undergraduates and Postgraduates will have some experience of technologies in lectures and outside lectures during their time studying here.
Students are integral to the developmental use of technologies in individual modules and increasingly to they are being asked to take a lead in this area across the Business School. The opinion of students is sought and valued and keen students are given opportunities to share their thinking and turn their student voice into action. At the time of writing this report (the start of the 2010/11 academic year), developments are well underway for the first cohort of student e-learning champions to be established in the school, working at a series of technology-oriented projects.
The Head of Student Learning and the Director of Education will continue to take a key role in driving this work forward, backed up by a strong network of skilled individuals who have a positive attitude to innovation and technology.