Faculty and capability

Put the right expertise around the learning challenge

Curio gives organisations access to specialist learning expertise when and where it is needed, from individual experts to multidisciplinary teams, while building the capability to sustain the work internally.

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The challenge

Learning transformation needs people as well as plans

An ambitious learning strategy can quickly run into a practical constraint: the organisation doesn't have enough of the right capability available at the right time.

The gap might be learning design, facilitation, assessment, educational technology, research, production or specialist subject expertise. Sometimes the need is one person. Sometimes it is an entire team that can start quickly and work alongside internal people.

Curio combines an experienced core team with a global Faculty community of learning specialists and subject-matter experts. We don't simply fill roles. We assemble the capability required to get the work done well.

What it is

What is the Curio Faculty community?

The Curio Faculty community is our network of learning specialists and subject-matter experts: learning designers, instructors, facilitators, writers, researchers and technologists. Everyone we place comes from that community, so they're people we've worked with before, not names pulled from a database.

Curio matches the right people to your brief, manages their onboarding and stays accountable for the quality of their work.

Where we help

Specialist capability, assembled around the work

Specialist expertise

Learning designers, instructional specialists, researchers, writers, developers, technologists, facilitators and subject-matter experts selected for the work.

Multidisciplinary teams

Complete teams assembled around a program or transformation, combining the disciplines required rather than making the client coordinate multiple suppliers.

Scaled facilitation and delivery

Facilitators and instructors recruited, prepared and supported to deliver consistently across large cohorts, locations or time zones.

Subject-matter expertise

Industry and disciplinary experts who bring credibility and current practice into learning design, content and delivery.

Capability uplift

Coaching, professional learning, frameworks and practical ways of working that strengthen the capability of internal teams.

Flexible capacity

Additional expertise during peaks, major builds or transformation programs without creating permanent organisational capacity that isn't required later.

How we match people

A better match from the beginning

Every engagement starts with a clear brief covering the required outcomes, environment, audience, availability and ways of working. We use that context to identify relevant people, support onboarding and maintain quality throughout delivery.

Every specialist we place comes from our Faculty community: people we've worked with before, not names pulled cold from a database.

Ways to work with us

Three ways to work with us

One specialist

A learning designer, instructor or subject-matter expert who joins your team for a project or a busy period.

A managed team

A complete team, led by Curio, that delivers a defined program of work from start to finish.

A standing panel

Pre-agreed people and rates, so new work can start without a fresh procurement each time.

500k+500k+ learning hours delivered

100k+100k+ students served

15,000+15,000+ facilitators and subject-matter experts

Case studies

Capability delivered at scale

Higher education

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.

Higher education

Supplying 300 adjunct academics on demand

RMIT wanted to launch an online university in 2016, and fixed academic headcount does not flex with demand. We supply around 300 adjunct academics and industry specialists, and have done ever since.

Higher education

Uplifting online teaching in weeks, not months

Semester 1 of 2020 was not going to wait for a considered transition plan. We uplifted Queen Mary University of London's online teaching offering fast, school by school rather than one generic briefing.

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Common questions

Questions about faculty and capability

How quickly can Curio place a specialist?

Curio can usually place a specialist within one to two weeks, and stand up a full team in four to six weeks.

How does Curio choose the right people?

Every placement starts with a written brief covering the outcomes, audience, environment, availability and ways of working. Curio shortlists people from its Faculty community who've done similar work, and you meet them before they start.

Who manages quality?

Curio does. A Curio lead stays accountable for every placement, supports onboarding and checks in with you and the specialist throughout the work.

Can Curio provide instructors and facilitators at scale?

Yes. Curio recruits, prepares and supports facilitators and instructors to deliver consistently across large cohorts, several locations and different time zones.

Will you build our own team's capability too?

Yes. Alongside the work itself, Curio offers coaching, professional learning and practical ways of working, so your team can carry on once the engagement ends.

How are specialists engaged?

Through Curio. Every specialist Curio places is engaged through Curio, so you have one contract, whether you need one person or a whole team.

Start with the capability gap

Put the right team around the work

Tell us what you're trying to deliver, where your existing team is stretched and which expertise is missing.

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