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Higher Education

Transform learning without treating it as a series of separate projects

Curio helps universities connect strategy, curriculum, learning design, technology, faculty and delivery, so change works for learners, instructors and the institution around them.

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The challenge

Universities don't experience change one system at a time

A new strategy affects the portfolio. Curriculum decisions affect teaching. Teaching depends on technology. Technology shapes the student experience. And all of it depends on people having the capability and capacity to make change work.

Yet transformation is often divided into separate strategy, curriculum, technology and implementation projects.

Curio works differently. We bring together education strategy, learning science, experience design, technology and delivery expertise to address the connected problem. We can help with one part of the system or work across it from the first decision through to implementation.

Where we help

Strategy, portfolio and new models

Understand markets and learner demand, evaluate opportunities, shape portfolios and build the business and operating models behind new education initiatives.

Curriculum transformation

Redesign programs and curricula around clear outcomes, coherent learning journeys, authentic assessment and the capabilities graduates need.

Learning design and development

Design and build online, blended and face-to-face learning, from individual courses through to large-scale program and portfolio transformation.

Learning technology

Improve the LMS and wider learning ecosystem through experience design, templates, configuration, integrations, analytics and purpose-built tools.

AI in education

Identify where AI can create genuine educational or operational value, then design responsible applications around evidence, risk and the role of human judgement.

Faculty and capability

Bring in specialist capacity for transformation and delivery while building the knowledge, systems and confidence internal teams need to sustain the change.

From one course to institutional change

Scale changes the problem

Designing one excellent course is different from transforming fifty.

At institutional scale, quality depends on more than good learning design. Standards need to be repeatable. Technology needs to support the model. Faculty need practical guidance. Production needs governance. Leaders need evidence of progress and quality.

Curio brings these elements together so institutions can move at pace without treating consistency as a substitute for good learning.

Technology

Make the learning ecosystem support the education model

Technology decisions should follow what the institution is trying to achieve for learners and staff.

Our teams work across Canvas, Moodle, Brightspace and connected systems to improve the experience, simplify workflows, integrate data and extend platforms where standard functionality isn't enough.

We also build learning products where a recurring problem is better solved once than worked around repeatedly. Explore learning technology or Curio products.

Case studies

Higher Education work in practice

Higher education
Making Moodle Workplace look like the brand

Metropolitan College wanted a Moodle environment that looked and worked like its brand. The catch was Moodle Workplace, a more restricted platform, so we rebuilt the experience within those constraints.
Higher education
Building carbon literacy into a business school

Leeds University Business School wanted carbon literacy built into staff and student capability. We designed a short, self-directed course with the university's own subject expert, rather than a workshop that fades.
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Becoming the standing course design partner

By late 2019 RMIT Online was growing faster than its procurement could commission course design. We became the standing design partner, so new courses could move without re-running approvals each time.

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A different kind of education partner

Bring us the institutional problem

You don't need to decide whether a challenge belongs to strategy, curriculum, learning design or technology before talking to us. Understanding how those pieces interact is part of our job.

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