The Kingston College KUBE: Kingston Uplift for Business Education Project is a JISC funded Curriculum Delivery Project run under the Transforming Curriculum Design and Delivery Through Technology Programme.
The project is led by Kingston College with Kingston University
Our project ...
This project aimed to enhance the learning experience of students studying on higher level business education programmes delivered at Kingston College on behalf of Kingston University. The project focused on the introduction of an integrated suite of ILT tools and services in order to transform the delivery of the business curriculum. The KUBE project adopted approaches which attempted to address the pedagogic, vocational and lifestyle needs of our learners and generate effective and meaningful outcomes of value for the sector.
The project has developed and evaluated models of good practice in using technology to transform teaching, learning and assessment in higher level business education by:
- Supporting learners through the use of interactive online resources.
- Enriching learning and teaching through the use of mobile technology.
- Extending the role of e-learning through blended learning curriculum delivery models.
- Supporting teaching staff through an e-supported peer observation scheme.
Impact and Benefits to the Community
(taken from the project Final Report)
- The main benefits have arisen from the pedagogic planning tool which has enabled curriculum managers and lecturing teams to employ educational technologies in a clearly structured and cohesive format. This has facilitated the embedding of these technologies within curriculum delivery and thus eliminated the perception of educational technology as an ‘optional extra’. This tool has now been adopted throughout the institution and is already reaping benefits in other curriculum areas.
- The differentiation of delivery between modules on the courses has unified and thus strengthened individual lecturing teams whilst still engendering an integrated overall course delivery.
- Students have benefited from the KUBE project with approximately 80% of the first year cohort of full-time students* involved in the project stating that it has increased their motivation to study. Similar response rates have been recorded for the students’ perception that it has had a positive impact on grades, helped them to understand new concepts and helped in assessment preparation.
- Other significant impacts and benefits include the following: (extract taken from Becta Beacon Award application 2010)
1. A framework and support system that assist curriculum managers and teaching teams in planning and delivering integrated approaches to the curriculum involving a combination of traditional face-to-face and online methods.
2. Provide a high quality learning experience for our students that raised levels of engagement, participation and success.
3. Implement curriculum delivery models that achieved efficiency savings for the organisation whilst raising the quality of learning and teaching.
- The College’s KUBE Project (Kingston Uplift for Blended Education) explored a variety of ways of effectively and efficiently combining face-to-face and online modes of curriculum delivery on HE Business courses at the College. The replacement of class-based provision with web-based approaches has taken place in a wide range of other curriculum areas across the College and has directly impacted on around 1200 learners, 65 teaching staff and all five of the College’s faculties.
Our dissemination
Project website containing the project outputs
Project blog
Project outputs
The KUBE blended model
KUBE Blends video
KUBE Curriculum Models animated slideshow
KUBE Blended Learning in HE Business programmes Xerte unit
Staff development and stakeholder engagement
KUBE Visioning Day to engage stakeholders at start of project
Curriculopoly Board Game
KUBE Pedagogic blended learning toolkit
Sample learning units
Organisational Culture learning unit from Managing Yourself and Others course
Measuring Financial Performance learning unit from Business Accounting course
Feedback from Students and teachers
Kube show reel containing feedback from students and teachers.
KUBE Students play Curriculopoly as part of the feedback and evaluation process.
KUBE partner institution feedback - Mark Farmer Module leader from our partnership institution, Kingston University provides feedback at the end of the project and discusses plans to roll-out the approach with the University and other partners.
KUBE Foundation Degree Feedback two student representatives from the foundation degree provide feedback about the use of mobile devices on the FD modules.
Our Team
Our Cluster and Critical Friend
We are working with the following projects
Making the new Diploma a Success Project
MORSE Project
Springboard TV Project
Our Critical Friend is Andrew Comrie
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