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Curriculum design and support for online learning
checklist

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Contents
Using the checklist.........................................................................................................1

Curriculum design questions..........................................................................................2

Supporting online student questions.............................................................................4

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Using the checklist

This checklist highlights key questions for institutions that are considering their online learning provision. Your
institution may be planning to adopt new models of online or distance learning or may be integrating online
learning into existing courses. This checklist should be useful for both scenarios.

This checklist provides groups of related questions that could be considered by teams, committees or individuals.
Some of the questions may require institution-wide consideration, whilst others may also need to be considered
at a departmental or course team level. They include strategic and operational aspects as well as more specific
questions for individual courses, modules or learning activities.

The questions were developed during the development of three Jisc guides to support the Scaling up of online
learning (see below) and there is a checklist for each guide:

 Scaling up online learning provides a strategic view of different models and the implications of
implementing online learning at an institutional level

 Curriculum design and support for online learning  helps you make decisions around curriculum design
and determine support needs when scaling up online learning

 Technology and tools for online learning  provides guidance, resources and case studies around the use
of technology to support online courses and distance learning programmes.

The Jisc Curriculum design and support for online learning guide provides information and links to case studies
and could be used alongside this checklist to help staff make decisions.

A master checklist, where the key questions for all three guides are combined into one document, is available to
download here: http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6495/

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Curriculum design questions

See Jisc Curriculum design and support for online learning guide - https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/curriculum-
design-and-support-for-online-learning

Question Notes/Actions
DESIGN AND PEDAGOGIC MODELS
Is there a pedagogic argument for delivering our
course via online learning?

Which pedagogic approaches and models in our

current curriculum can benefit from online
technologies?

Do we need to change our current pedagogic

approaches for an online context?

Which pedagogic models are most appropriate for our

specific online learning needs?

Which technologies support the different pedagogic

approaches we want to adopt?

What existing models of online learning already

operate within our institution and how successful are
they?

Can we adopt strategies from gaming (‘gamification’)

within our courses?

What are the implications of adopting games-based

learning approaches?
What operational, technical and administrative
changes would be required?

Could adopting an open course approach benefit our

students or institution?

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Question Notes/Actions

Can some parts of our existing courses benefit from

being made open?

Should we use open licences for any of our online

course content?

IMPLICATIONS OF CURRICULUM RE-DESIGN

Which institutional activities and services are affected
when designing online learning?

What institutional systems and services need to

change to accommodate changes to our curriculum?

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Supporting online student questions

See Jisc Curriculum design and support for online learning guide - https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/curriculum-
design-and-support-for-online-learning

Question Notes/Actions
What support do our online students need that is
different from campus-based students?

How can we involve students as co-creators?

How do we provide online learning students with

appropriate institutional support?

How do we make online students feel connected to

the institution? How do we create a sense of
belonging and community?

What do we need to change to support online

students in their learning?

What do we need to change to provide pastoral

support to online students? How can we ensure our
online students feel safe and secure?

What do we need to change to support online

students with different needs and/or disabilities?
What do we need to change to provide appropriate
technical support for online students? Who provides
technical support?
Can we provide an equivalent level of careers support
for online students?

What can online students offer as co-creators and

partners?

How will we engage online students as partners?

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STAFF ROLES AND SKILLS

How will staff roles change at all levels of the
institution? How can we support new working
practices?
What new skills do we need in our
faculty/department? What skills frameworks could be
useful?

How can we support staff to develop the skills they

will need?

A master checklist, where the key questions for all three guides are combined into one document, is available to
download here: http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6495/

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