Core content modules at Leeds Metropolitan University

As part of Leeds Metropolitan University’s review of the postgraduate curriculum in 2012–13, Libraries and Learning Innovation (LLI) was asked to lead a project group to create two core content modules for use at Level 7 (Masters level) in Research Practice and Project Management. The rationale for choosing these two areas was the sheer number of modules in these subjects taught across a wide range of disciplines, each of which is currently designed and populated by individual course teams. The group consisted of representatives from the University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning, academic staff, learning technologists and academic librarians, and was chaired by the Associate Director of LLI, Wendy Luker

Collaborating to create re-usable core content modules

The rationale for creating Core Content modules in subject areas very commonly taught across the curriculum was to free up staff time from content creation, allowing them to concentrate on curriculum design and delivery. The modules may be used in their entirety, or in part, and are deliberately generic, so that they may be contextualised to suit a range of subject disciplines. Core content modules in Research Practice and Project Management have already been created, and will be followed next by Introduction to Marketing, and Introduction to Strategic Management