The Supporting Responsive Curricula: Digital Creative Industries project is apart of a larger project created by MMU to pilot “agile, demand-led curriculum design processes that promote flexible delivery and enhance learner employability.”
For the DCI part of the project, and in slightly simpler language, we have a few aims.
- We want to establish the training, learning and development needs of the North West Digital Creative Industry.
- We’ll do this by working with a group of firms that seem to fit into this category and try to understand what jobs people do in those firms.
- By looking at the jobs, we’re going to create a set of competences that each kind of worker within those forms should have.
- Ultimately, we’ll reconfigure the descriptions of courses that Universities provide locally (in particular MMU) and make them clear what competences are provided as a result of learning there.
The end result is that it should:
- Become pretty clear what kind of learning needs to go on to support firms in this area
- Make it easier for firms to identify whether a graduate will have the kind of skills and qualities that they need in their business
- Make it easier for firms to identify where they can acquire learning from to up-skill their current staff
- Make it easier for graduates to identify what competences they have based on the learning they have completed
