Executive summary UNSW Canberra engaged Curio to design and develop the “Governance in Policy Systems” course, part of a broader initiative to enhance public sector governance education. This project involved developing a fully online graduate certificate course tailored to individuals seeking to transition into the public sector. The collaboration resulted in a comprehensive, learner-centred course … ‘Governance in Policy Systems’ Course for UNSW
Executive Summary Curio Group partnered with a major Australian University to co-design a professional learning module, offering architectural and allied discipline professionals an interactive online platform to integrate Country and First Nations Cultural practices into their work. The initiative emphasises unlearning and relearning to embed methodologies informed by Country, Community, and Culture. Participants can … Embedding Indigenous Pedagogy in Professional Learning
Executive Summary Curio partnered with the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) to develop USQ UpSkill, a new approach to delivering professional learning. USQ UpSkill is an educational product and service that responds to the need for shorter, engaging bites of learning, blending the rigour of academic learning with authentic, work-based contexts. The UpSkill website is … USQ Upskill Course Hub Implementation
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
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
Executive summary Curio engaged in a two-part project with the University of Sydney to revamp the learning experiences students had in their core science units. The first part involved redesigning the Canvas LMS to support multi-model course delivery, while the second part aimed to reinvent first-year physics courses using a new pedagogical model aligned with … Redesigning Canvas LMS for the University of Sydney
In 2016, Curio Faculty helped a Melbourne university launch their own separate online university by providing a flexible online teaching offer that could scale with demand. Today, Curio Faculty Services provides the Client with a dedicated, experienced team of 300 adjunct academic and industry specialists engaged on an as- and when-needed basis. Approximately 85% are … Quality and success in Online Learning and Teaching
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
Executive summary Unity Environmental University has partnered with Curio Group to enhance its online learning platform. The collaboration aimed to elevate their Canvas LMS by creating innovative features and a modern interface that enabled student success. Through a series of UX/UI workshops and co-design sessions, both entities pushed boundaries, resulting in an exceptionally beautiful and … Canvas Template Design and Development
Executive summary This case study examines the strategic education initiative developed by the Curio Group for CPA Australia, aimed at overhauling and future-proofing their educational offerings. Facing the challenges of a rapidly evolving accounting landscape marked by technological advancements and changing market demands, CPA Australia collaborated with the Curio Group to revitalise its education framework. … Development of a five-year education strategy
Situation The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), is a UK-based membership organisation and standard-setting body for accountants who work in the public sector, accounting firms and other professional bodies that manage public funds, with international reach. Alongside standards and policy, CIPFA offers a range of qualifications, training, events and services to its … An enhanced member journey for the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
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
The platform is a unique development in the Irish higher education landscape bringing together accredited short courses from different universities on to one central platform with course information, enquiries, and enrolment segregated and controlled by each institution.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a not-for-profit philanthropic research and teaching organisation which aims to develop individuals in the sciences sector to achieve advances in the sciences. Howard Hughes was looking for support to develop their Canvas LMS, to improve the presentation of their brand in the market and ensure that they had the … Uplifting the Canvas environment for the Howard Hughes Institute
Santa Clara University’s School of Education was working on a new online version of its Masters Programme in Teaching to be launched in the fall of 2023. This programme is being produced in response to the growing demand for a flexible option for students wishing to study and to receive a teaching credential at the … A high quality learning experience for education students at Santa Clara University
Curio worked closely with the AUT Learning Transformation LAB (altLab) to design a robust, user-friendly Canvas template to roll out during the LMS migration to improve the user experience.
Together, we developed a detailed brief of requirements for the template and identified common elements that would be used across faculties and departments. The aim of the template was to provide a consistent look and feel across all courses with sufficient flexibility to cater for the wide range of courses offered by AUT.
Curio was engaged by the SAC Council to undertake a feasibility study into the proposal and advise SAC on whether to progress the proposal. The project was to assess the strategic, commercial and financial feasibility of the proposal.
One of the UK’s well-known universities for being a key player in world-leading research activity approached Curio to help them overcome the staff shortages they faced when delivering their master’s programmes in Data Science and AI. Delivering the resource to scale The university saw a rapid increase in student enrolments in both their Data Science … Expert online tutors for the delivery of Data Science postgraduate programmes
APA is Australia’s professional physiotherapists’ peak membership body and delivers a large portfolio of education and CPD to physiotherapists, including online products. APA sought to explore the opportunity to expand its education offerings to international physiotherapists to increase revenue to reinvest in member value in Australia. APA engaged Curio to: Assess APA’s unique strengths and … A strategy to grow educational offerings into international markets for APA
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.
One of Australia’s largest accounting organisations with a membership of more than 160,000 members in over 100 countries approached us to help them develop their offering to provide a compelling experience for the next generation of learners.
The Institute of Positive Education is an initiative by Geelong Grammar School aimed at improving student wellbeing. Curio Digital worked with the Institute to co-design the Positive Education Enhanced Curriculum (PEEC) portal. PEEC is a research-based explicit Positive Education curriculum that has been developmentally sequenced from Early Learning (age four) through to Year 12.
Phoenix Australia deliver world-leading mental health and trauma training, programs of research and knowledge translation. Demand for Phoenix’s training increased significantly after Australia’s devastating bush fires over the 2020-21 summer season, before increasing again as Covid-19 hit. With all training delivered face to face, Phoenix sought to rapidly move online to meet demand at this critical time across the country.
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.
Enabling a Russell Group university to transition to online quickly and cost-effectively through upskilling academics and uplifting existing programmes.
As an Instructure partner, Curio has the expertise to develop custom solutions for Canvas LMS and was able to provide a solution for MBS and their client.
Curio worked with UHI to scope out the key requirements for a new intranet to improve the level and quality of communication across the multiple partner institutions to build a community of shared working practice.
We worked collaboratively with a leading accountancy membership body to develop the future state vision of their digital learning ecosystem. Their new vision placed members and their personal learning journeys at its centre. The organisation was in the process of shifting to a new direction in professional development and embracing digital technologies to create unique learner experiences.
An NGO which sets and maintains standards around the world for sustainable fishing wanted to formulate a vision for how technology could improve and deepen interactions with its stakeholders. Curio dived into the datasets and systems to help provide the answer.
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?”.
Curio Academy brought together expertise across course design, development and delivery to build a tailored training package.
Grady Hancock shares our engagement with the University of Sydney to redesign of their gateway unit of study for Geography, Environmental Studies and Geology.
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
The University of Sydney has seen incredible results from the International Arrivals Program since its launch. A dedicated Arrivals Program team, supported by a multitude of stakeholders across the University, Study NSW, NSW Government, and FCM Travel, have worked tirelessly in a continuously changing environment to ensure that students receive the support they require as … Custom Canvas template for University of Sydney’s Arrivals Program
Read this case study of our work with Keele University to hire, contract and onboard an expert online facilitator for their newly launched MBA course.
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 University of Nottingham is a public university with campuses across the UK, China and Malaysia. The University of Nottingham’s Quality Manual contains the University’s policies and regulations across each of its campuses. With a number of content editors across different schools and departments, the structure and contents of the manual had become unwieldly and … An enhanced content experience for students and staff worldwide
In 2020, we started our partnership to provide online tutors for one of their clients, a leading Russell Group collegiate university. Through this partnership, we deliver online short courses designed for professionals working in government and public bodies, which enable them to upskill through flexible, remote learning.
The Trust was asked by Health Education England to solve the problem of trying to support the management teams of the national mental health workforce. They approached Curio to help build an online toolkit to help managers and workforce planners develop their teams.
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
Kids First is an independent child and family services provider and early education specialist. Their vision is for all children and young people to thrive in resilient, strong and safe families and communities. Stand Up! is a face-to-face, facilitated experience for students over four sessions. The program is so popular it was difficult to further … Kids First Stand Up! program
The Australian federal government’s decision to cap international student numbers appears to be politically motivated, with immigration expected by many political analysts a key issue in the next election. International Education added $48b to the Australian economy in 2023 and the impact of these changes are complex and hard to unravel. International experience shows that … Capping International Student Numbers: A Complex Issue
Online and hybrid learning providers, particularly in the EdTech sector, face a complex challenge in balancing three critical factors: engagement, profitability, and educational impact. This inherent tension can determine the success or failure of an EdTech venture, as companies strive to create products that are both effective for learners and viable within a commercial framework. … Navigating the Tension Between Engagement, Profitability, and Educational Impact in EdTech
In the field of educational content design, Gabby Parish and Kadee Fang, graphic designers at Curio Group, encounter unique challenges that distinguish their work from other industries. Prioritising functionality and accessibility, their designs strike a balance between creativity and the need to meet educational standards. Whether enhancing learning outcomes through visuals or integrating student … Visual Learning Redefined: Gabby Parish and Kadee Fang’s Approach to Educational Graphic Design
Joining us today is Anne Youssef, a senior consultant at Curio Group with a rich background in learning design and technology. Anne’s career journey has been marked by a diverse range of experiences, from her early work in resource development at TAFE NSW to her impactful roles at King’s College London and now Curio … Empathy, Collaboration, and Growth: Insights from Anne Youssef on Learning Design
InstructureCon 2024 in Las Vegas was an enlightening experience, offering deep dives into Canvas innovations, networking with education leaders, and inspiring keynotes on the future of learning. The event’s atmosphere was dynamic and engaging, providing valuable insights and practical tools to enhance our educational strategies. At Curio, we were particularly excited to see how … Reflections from InstructureCon
Transitioning from a seasoned English language teacher to a learning designer, Jemima’s career is a testament to determination, passion, and the power of leveraging diverse educational experiences. Through resilience and strategic career moves, she has not only embraced the evolving landscape of digital education but also contributed significantly to creating inclusive, impactful and transformative learning experiences. Join … Charting the Path to Excellence in Learning Design with Jemima Collins, Learning Designer Curio Group.
NAIDOC Week is a time to celebrate the rich history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This year’s theme, “Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud, and Proud,” resonates deeply with the ongoing journey of preserving and nurturing Indigenous knowledge and traditions. It signifies the commitment to sustaining the … NAIDOC Week is a Time to Celebrate The Rich History
We deeply appreciate Dr. Kaushik Sridhar for taking the time to sit down with Celeste Kocabay, our Head of People and Culture, and share his invaluable insights. His expertise and perspective are truly empowering. With a wealth of experience and a passion for creating positive, informative, and engaging learning experiences, Dr. Sridhar shares his … Unlocking the Secrets of Online Facilitation with Dr. Kaushik Sridhar: Insights from a Seasoned Expert
The latest Australian Government budget includes significant commitments aimed at transforming the higher education landscape. From increasing accessibility for disadvantaged students to addressing student debt and practical training costs, these initiatives reflect a strong focus on educational equity and future workforce needs. Below are some key highlights. In a significant move towards enhancing educational … Australian Government Budget 24/25: Insights from Education Experts
The National Skills Passport stands as a transformative tool that could significantly streamline the recognition of qualifications and credentials, serving as a bridge between learners’ achievements and employers’ needs. By facilitating a more efficient verification process, the Skills Passport promises to reduce the administrative burden and costs associated with credential validation. Key Principle … Skills Passport Curio Group Submission
Is now the perfect time to reimagine the student experience in higher education? This week the Office for Students published its Blended Learning Review, which is significant for higher education strategy in the UK. University leadership teams in the UK are seeking to respond to the findings and recommendations of this report. Key points that jump … The OfS blended learning report: meeting the challenge
Don’t fall for a mismatch in learning and development resources allocated to leadership and corporate functions. Involve all departments in change management at the outset to plan effective learning and development initiatives with a thorough understanding of capability and skills gaps, alongside business priorities.
Use this template board to place content decisions in the context of an over-arching service design, informed by the desired business outcomes that drive content creation and the people, resources and technology available to support.
With the rise of online learning, the demand for expert online facilitators has become significant. Curio Academy understands what it takes to be an expert in online facilitation and encourages aspiring and experienced online facilitators to refine their skills to stay current within the innovating education sector.
In 2020, we interviewed UK students to find out their perspectives on the changes to their educational offerings in response to COVID-19 and discuss what institutions need to do to going forward. From listening to these students and reflecting on their views, we have put together some key takeaways and suggestions universities should take on board as they start to prepare for Semester 2.
The post-pandemic economic and humanitarian recovery gives all stakeholders a unique moment to reshape the VET sector and strengthen VET’s potential to ensure Australian businesses of all shapes and sizes have the skills they need to support their growth.
Learning Experience Lead, Tom Whitford, reminds us why student evaluation survey results shouldn’t be taken at face value. This article highlights key variables which can distort student feedback findings and results, one being supplying sweet treats during the survey! Have a read to find out more.
After the events of 2020 and 2021, there is newfound respect, admiration and awareness of the work done by educators. Teachers have been the backbone of higher education institutions for many years, but they have found a new relevance in supporting students through the post-pandemic landscape.
Our Digital Director Michael Frantzis discusses a past project of his, redesigning University College London’s homepage with Independent Design Director, Will Kruger and UX Consultant Marcos Villasenor. The project involved extensive user testing to iteratively improve the page design and refine content. The result was a beautiful, user-friendly landing homepage that saw some impressive results.
CEO, David Bowser’s reflections of what we have learnt over the past 5 years.
