1. course information at your fingertips
Are we there yet? Making curriculum visible: 
Engaging students in learning outcomes and career relevance through a multi-dimensional, interactive map
A/Professor Lisa BG Tee & Simon Bedford
School of Pharmacy | Innovation Studio I Curtin University | University of Wollongong
©Lisa Tee

2. National Teaching Fellowship Objectives
To generate a national conversation around how to better communicate and engage students in their program of study
Increase transparency and relevance of curricula for students.
Offers access to an already developed interactive curriculum visualisation tool – MyCourseMap – built on digital-touch technology for all mobile devices and is available for pilot across institutions.
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017

3. When you start university…
where do you start?
Enrol?
What units?
This
That
Other
Specialisation?
Graduate capabilities?
Course learning outcomes
©Lisa Tee
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017

4. How can we increase visibility of curriculum to students?
Are students aware of the importance of CLOs?
Are students aware of the importance of graduate skills for graduate success?
What about graduate skills and employability
How does your institution present course information?

5. First year Pharmacy student
I am excited about
getting into Uni and very happy to be accepted into the Pharmacy course, but its scary……as I do not know what to expect in the course………
To be able to see
the entire course map and listening to students talking about the units will increase my confidence. With increased confidence, I will perform better……
First year Pharmacy student
Indeed my personal experience with Year 1 students on Day One during Orientation. Quite often student sitting on their own. I would chat with them. Ask if they are excited about commencing the Pharmacy Course……
Created a visual MycourseMap in This was used for marketing and presented as a poster.
MyCourseMap is an interactive visual curriculum map that supports students in understanding the structure and integration of units in their chosen or prospective degree and assist them in appreciating the relevance of individual units of study to the profession or discipline. Furthermore, this dynamic and interactive tool, available through mobile and touch digital technologies, has the capacity to inform, inspire and engage students by enhancing their professional identity development. A comment from a secondary school student upon presentation of the Bachelor of Pharmacy visual degree map as an example of a curriculum map was:
“This map will show me the entire degree that I will embark on. With references from videos of students and professionals telling me about the units that I will be taking in the entire degree, I will be more confident and with increased confidence, I will perform better”.
©Lisa Tee
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017

6. Research and Evaluation
MyCourseMap Journey
MyCourseMap Team
Research and Evaluation
Sonia Ferns, Laetitia Hattingh, Vanessa Chang, Sue Fyfe, Oksana Burford, Tin Fei Sim,
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7. a mothership / docking station for learning resources
MyCourseMap™ Concept
One stop portal for course information - immediate relevance
Horizontal and vertical integration of curriculum – holistic view
Peer, graduate and employer stories –motives and inspires
Links learning outcomes to assessments – assessment drives learning
Links content to CLOs– competency & accreditation
Graduate capabilities - employability
One tool many uses – marketing, curriculum review and renewal, accreditation, remediation and study plan….and more
a mothership / docking station for learning resources
The MCM was developed based on concepts which is further based on the needs of students and staff.
Specifically, the MyCourseMap structure:
provides immediate relevance for degree content and its organisation
provides a visual picture of the horizontal and vertical integration across the curriculum
identifies the desired graduate capabilities with links to the degree content
links learning outcomes with unit/courses and assessment tasks
allows linking of content and assessment tasks to CLOs
embeds peer, graduate and employer stories (through text, audio and video) to demonstrate the relevance of the course/program structure and content
clearly identifies graduate employment prospects for degrees and degree streams
provides a tool which can also be used for curriculum review and renewal by embedding horizontal and vertical integration within a program of study.
For staff, manual construction of curriculum maps is a cumbersome and time-intensive process. The MyCourseMap tool provides a readily accessible curriculum map which enables the curriculum to be interrogated with ease. With the development of the visual curriculum map, information linked to the map will be easily accessible to students and staff.
Indeed I see this a a portal or perhaps as a Star Wars fan, I see this as the mothership – a docking station for other learning and teaching resources such as virtual tool, gamification, Interprofessional education etc…
©Lisa Tee
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017

8. MyCourseMap - POC This is the proof of concept with features ©Lisa Tee
Curriculum all in one place.
Interactive unit buttons linking to detailed unit information including syllabus, tuition pattern, unit learning outcomes, graduate attributes, assessment, pre-requisite etc…
Filter by year and or themes. For example in the Bachelor of Pharmacy course, we have the Pharmacotherapy / clinical Pharmacy stream, Pharmaceutics, etc…
Also other features interactive link of units with Graduate attributes and CLOs.
Blogging,
For example in Pharmacy, we might have info on say the Top 100 drugs etc..
©Lisa Tee
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017

9. MyCourseMap – ASCILITE full conference paper
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National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017

10. How useful and important are features in MCM
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National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017
The order of usefulness and importance of the MCM features are indicated here. Participants valued having the entire view of the course as no 1 followed by the interactive buttons and thirdly by homepage, pre-requisite map, key word search and link to CLOs of equal importance and usefulness.

11. MyCourseMap: What the students and staff say
Three main themes
User-friendly and easy to navigate
Providing a holistic picture of a degree
Useful for planning.
Staff
Four main themes
Incorporation of modern technology
User-friendly and easy to navigate
Providing a holistic picture of a degree
Multiple applications and uses.
The four main themes about the advantages of using MyCourseMap that emerged from staff focus group data were:
Incorporation of modern technology,
User-friendly and easy to navigate,
Providing a holistic picture of a degree, and
Multiple applications and uses.
©Lisa Tee
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017

12. Course learning outcomes
Ask the students
Graduate capabilities?
What are the relevance?
Importance of graduate attribute?
Course learning outcomes
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017

13. Graduates-Employers-Course Team comparative perspectives
Important
Demonstrated
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Figure 5: A comparison of graduate, employer and course team perceptions of capabilities perceived as more important to early professional success (percentage agreement ‘quite’ or 'very important')
Figure 6: A comparison of graduate, employer and course team perceptions of capabilities perceived as more demonstrated or developed (percentage agreement “quite” or “very much”)
However some students Commented – we don’t care about graduate attributes, what are graduate attributes, what is the relevance to what I am studying?

14. The next step…..
Making graduate attributes and course learning outcomes “visible” to students and staff
……Lisa Tee’s National Teaching Fellowship

15. MyCourseMap™ Mark II
The version 2 working solution to address the feedback (both advantages and barriers) from the evaluation workshops
©Lisa Tee
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017

16. Units are linked to other related units and pre-requisites.
©Lisa Tee
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017
Transformed unit details = unit outline = contract for students for enrolment in unit
Units are linked to other related units and pre-requisites.

17. Phase 2 Pilot Curtin Faculty of Health Sciences: Bachelor courses
Nursing
Pharmacy
Psychology
Nutrition
Occupational Therapy
Health Policy and Management  
Faculty of Humanities:
Bachelor of Education (2 courses)
Primary and Early Childhood
Fine Art Major (BA OpenUnis)
CBS:
Bachelor of Commerce
(5 majors)
Other EOIs:
Edith Cowan University
Murdoch University
University of Adelaide
La Trobe University
Monash University
RMIT:
Bachelor of Pharmacy
Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
University of Wollongong
Bachelor of Psychology
QUT
Bachelor of Pharmacy
©Lisa Tee
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017

18. Introducing …… MyCourseMap Champions
Professor Ieva Stupans (RMIT)
Dr Cindy O’Malley (RMIT)
Dr Manuel Serrano Santos (QUT)
Dr Laetitia Hattingh (Curtin – Griffiths)
Dr Simon Bedford (Uni of Wollongong)
Dr Cate Jerram (Uni Adelaide)
Dr Helen Godwin (Curtin)
Dr Tin Fei Sim (Curtin)
A/Prof Gerry Rayner (Monash University)
Julie Crough (Griffiths University)

19. How can we increase visibility of curriculum to students?
Are students aware of the importance of CLOs?
Are students aware of the importance of graduate skills for graduate success?
What about graduate skills and employability
How does your institution present course information?
Here introduce simon and ask Simon these questions

20. Making curriculum visible: A Psychology Course Cluster Review Case Study from UOW

21. Higher Education Standards Framework
All accredited courses of study are subject to periodic (at least every seven years) comprehensive reviews that are overseen by peak academic governance processes and include external referencing or other benchmarking activities.
Results of regular interim monitoring, comprehensive reviews, external referencing and student feedback are used to mitigate future risks to the quality of the education provided and to guide and evaluate improvements, including the use of data on student progress and success to inform admission criteria and approaches to course design, teaching, supervision, learning and academic support.
UOW is only the second higher educational provider to undergo the reregistration process under the new standards framework in Focus will be on assessment, course quality and offshore provision.
Document title

22. The Psychology Course Cluster at UOW
Course design and coherence – content, relevance, sequencing of subjects, core vs electives, progression through majors, minors and other structural elements of the course e.g assessment.
Course delivery – multi-location (UOW and Singapore), student engagement and support, flexibility for students, taking into account possibilities such as course transfer, part time study, access to study abroad and cross-disciplinary study.
Course performance – course data, monitor, review, report, improvement and implementation of changes
Quality assurance – meeting APAC accreditation requirements, benchmarking, peer review of assessment standards, course review and annual monitoring etc.
Academic leadership – APD working with discipline teams, teaching teams and with other faculties
Document title

23. The Psychology Course cluster Review 2016-17
Four areas of focus:
Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) reaccreditation
External Referencing of Assessment Standards (ERoS)
Comprehensive course review including Curriculum Transformation
TEQSA chosen course to report on mapping against HESF
Four key areas that

24. Key Course Review Priorities
Under the direction of the Head of School, APD is responsible for the provision of academic leadership in the planning, management, development, quality assurance and improvement of the academic course such as:
Assuring the overall coherence of the course and overseeing structural aspects of the course – Curriculum Maps
Confirming that assessments and assessment methods are sequenced across the degree – Constructive Alignment
Encouraging robust participation in the faculty/school moderation processes – Assessment Quality Cycle
Ensuring there is external referencing, to comparable courses, of assessment methods and grading of student achievement of course learning outcomes.- Peer Review of Assessment
Responding to issues emerging from course performance data. – Course Metrics
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25. Supporting the Psychology Course Cluster Reviews
Constructive Alignment and building the curriculum map:
Core and elective subjects mapped
Alignment of the CLOs with APAC and the AQF
Alignment of SLOs with CLOs
Assessments linked to SLOs
Mapping of the UOW Curriculum Model
ELP and Professional Skills
Key Changes:
New APAC standards used
New set of CLO’s created
Most SLO’s re-written
Some assessment changes
Building new subjects
Problem:
How to gather and share this data with the course review team, the wider Psychology School and students?
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26. Making the Psychology curriculum visible
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27. Making the Psychology curriculum visible
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28. Making the Psychology curriculum visible
MyCourseMap allows:
CLO/SLO/APAC Data to all be in one place.
Pulls assessment weights together.
Maps the CTP and ELP
Core vs Electives
Makes comparison with other courses more simple.
Easy to share with staff and students and external bodies.
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29. What next?
The course review team are currently writing the evaluation reports.
A range of recommendations have been proposed.
A new set of assessments and subjects redesigns are proposed.
MyCourseMap will allow the new and old curriculums to be compared and disseminated for comment.
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30. MyCourseMap™ Mark II MyCourseMap Nursing MyCourseMap Pharmacy
MyCourseMap for RMIT
MyCourseMap for
MyCourseMap for Psychology at UOW
©Lisa Tee
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017

31. Proposed Fellowship Outputs
Enable academics and students to employ a whole-of-program, interactive map from the point of enrolment.
Participating institutions have MyCourseMap for use
Generate a community of practice who will address the important issue of engaging student with curricula within and beyond the Fellowship.
National Teaching Fellowship Roadshow 2017