RMIT’s College of Business and Law wished to update their offerings in response to whole-of-university changes to blended learning. The College of Business and Law approached Curio with the challenge: “How should we change our MBA to embrace blended learning opportunities?”.
In 2020, we partnered with a leading technology university on a pilot project to develop a series of micro-credentials and provide expertise on the design and development of their micro-credential ecosystem. The credentials enable the delivery of high quality, stackable postgraduate micro-credentialled content online, each representing 30 hours of learning. They focus on various themes … High-quality micro-credentials for a leading technology university
The Assessment Research Centre (ARC) is a leading research unit, with a focus on improving assessments, reporting, and credentialing in universities and industry. Through a program of research, commercialisation, teaching and engagement, the Centre aims to solve challenges that face education and training providers. Part of this work involves the creation and delivery of nanoMOOCs, … Creation and delivery of nanoMOOCs hosted in Canvas
Curio partnered with a Group of 8 university, who were moving their hugely successful foundations course in Cyber Security to the online environment. The academic leads had effectively embedded a social learning model where students co-created and shared a “class textbook”, security tips and case studies that built upon content covered in lectures and readings. They sought a partner who could embed the enigmatic personalities of their academic leads and effective social learning model into the new delivery mode to reach their students across the globe.
The London School of Economics came to us with the problem that the students on their international programmes were not using the virtual learning environment (VLE) as much as they would have liked. Much of the time the learners would be on the portals provided by local teaching institutions who taught the courses. Feedback was … A high quality learning in experience in Moodle for London School of Economics
As a partner with one of Australasia’s leading universities, we are consistently providing our expert services to create excellent learning experiences for students to gain industry-specific knowledge and practical skills. We collaborated with this institution to combat their problem of insufficient availability of academic and learning design resource to support and translate the common discursive experience of a law course into an asynchronous online course.
Career development learning (CDL) encourages students to develop their career ambitions through reflection and through participation in career-related activities such as work-integrated learning. The literature recognises the benefits of incorporating CDL into university curricula, but institutions often struggle to create materials that academics can adapt and incorporate into existing programmes Edith Cowan University (ECU) partnered … Boosting Student Employability
In 2021, Curio successfully designed and delivered a collaboratively career-focused course comprising three micro-credentials to each of the six institutions. “Designing your Future” commenced as a collaboration with Stanford University and Curio successfully designed and developed an online opportunity available to thousands of students.
Grady Hancock shares our engagement with the University of Sydney to redesign of their gateway unit of study for Geography, Environmental Studies and Geology.
Leeds University Business School is committed to embedding and promoting sustainable practices both within the school and in wider society. The school sought to create high-quality online carbon literacy training for its students and the wider community at the University of Leeds. Academics at the university had the expertise and partnered with Curio Group to … Enabling carbon literacy among students at the University of Leeds
Our program and course reviews are centred on the learning experience in the context of the program, how efficiently it delivers learner, accreditation, or industry outcomes. We link strategic direction to curriculum design in areas such as stackable micro-credential frameworks. Furthermore, we use our knowledge and expertise in data analytics to determine courses and units that can be rationalised or develop new curriculum frameworks. We leverage our depth of expertise in health, education, IT, engineering and business and bring a clear academic lens.
Enabling a Russell Group university to transition to online quickly and cost-effectively through upskilling academics and uplifting existing programmes.
Until recently, the university experience was primarily centred around face-to-face interactions, with online learning management systems underutilised, functioning mostly as repositories for lecture slides and reading materials. The University of New England has long remained an outlier in this landscape, specialising in distance education for over 70 years. However, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and … Optimising Online Learning Designing for the University of New England
We worked with Curio’s UX designers to create a unique look and feel for our courses. They reviewed our brand guidelines and existing client feedback around key pain points and quickly produced a set of customised templates and associated bespoke code which are very easy to use, clean and visually engaging. We have had a lot of positive feedback since implementing the templates, both internally and externally.
