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Project Overview
UG-Flex is a four year project (2008-2012) that aims to reveal and enhance the University of Greenwich’s curriculum development processes in order to support a more agile and diverse curriculum underpinned by integrated systems.
The primary driver is the University’s strategic aim to sustainably increase efficient and effective flexible and part-time learning provision in a changing market place.
UG-Flex is funded by JISC under the Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design Programme, which comes under JISC’s e-Learning Programme.
Why Greenwich? – Why Now?
Greenwich is proud that as Woolwich Polytechnic we pioneered some of the country’s first part-time day release and sandwich courses. In the years since, we have offered a diverse curriculum covering part time, continuing professional development, in company and distance programmes as well as short courses.
Today, too many of the systems and processes that support our curriculum are shoe-horned into ways of working that were designed more than 10 years ago, when academic models and the student demographic were very different. We know that this situation is inhibiting the development of new and flexible curriculum.
UG-Flex is based on the premise that we must become more agile, more efficient and more responsive. This requires a University-wide understanding of what “flexible” means and the re-engineering of the dependent processes and central support systems to ensure they are straightforward, transparent and widely valued.