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  • How do we know what our students are studying, or when?
  • Do they have exposure to a range of learning environments, assessment styles?
  • How does the curriculum of a program map to other existing frameworks, e.g. course level outcomes to program outcomes to university outcomes?
  • Can our curriculum be mapped to other framework types e.g. meta-competency frameworks such as the ACQA?

My initial quest wasn't to answer these questions, it was simply to find out the learning objectives of other courses on the Bachelor Computer Science program so I could signpost and reference other courses when teaching students. It grew from there once I realised it would also be handy to know who was teaching other courses.  I trawled Osiris to get the data and played with tools such as the Visio/Excel flowchart builder and some online graphing tools - graph as in nodes and edges rather than charts because what is a study program but a collection of nodes (courses) connected by themes/topics/dependencies (edges)?

A cross-collaboration was then begun with Sanda Bruin to put together curriculum diagrams and give some analysis of the data we have about the curriculum. Definitely useful from a teaching perspective.

As with any other data analysis exercise, the results have simply led to more questions; and now the tool is borderline becoming useful from a student perspective as well.

 

 

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