Cascade:
Developing New Models to transform the Delivery & Support for Continuing & Professional Learners at the University of Oxford
The Oxford University's Department of Continuing Education Cascade Project is a JISC funded Curriculum Delivery Project run under the Transforming Curriculum Design and Delivery Through Technology Programme.
The project is led by Oxford University
Our project
The Cascade project is implementing new strategies to create improved curriculum delivery models that allow the University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education to respond more flexibly to stakeholders’ needs. Using an iterative design, implementation and evaluation process the project will develop and pilot a series of technology-enabled delivery models and embed the new delivery solutions in the ongoing practices and policies of the Department, and make the results of the project available to the wider HE community.
The project is currently focussing on the following five areas:
- Online assignment handling
- VLE support for courses
- Generic content
- Course design
- Online payment and enrolment.
Project dissemination
Project website
Project Blog
Impact and Benefits to the Community
excerpt from the final report
"The main impact of Cascade has been the development of sustainable new services that have been a key part of the solution to the challenge caused by the reduction in funding for students studying for an equivalent or lower qualification (ELQ). These services have used technology to support and extend curriculum delivery activities in the Department and have
resulted in:
- VLE support for award bearing courses, incorporating online assignment handling and access to generic content;
- Wider availability of online enrolment and payment services;
- Support for the course design process.
In doing this we have quantified the benefits these services offer the Department in terms of greater efficiency, improved service or innovation, and we have developed tools, processes and documentation to streamline and embed these. The challenge faced by the Department is being mirrored across Higher Education making many of our outputs more relevant to a wider audience.
In particular they offer:
- Suggestions of areas where other institutions might achieve comparable benefits;
- Information on how to achieve such benefits;
- Shared outputs from all stages of the process on which others can build;
- Open source code for Moodle.
- Allowing others to benefit from our developments."
Project Outputs
All project outputs are available at http://cascade.conted.ox.ac.uk/project-outputs
Reports
Stakeholder engagement
Case studies
Guidance documents
Technical documents
Associated resources
Content
Our Team
Our Cluster and Critical Friend
We are working with the following projects
Atelier-D Project
ISCC Project
Duckling Project
Our Critical Friend is Peter Chatterton
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