Curriculum Design & Assessment (CDA)

The University of Nottingham has bold ambitions to improve its curriculum design and assessment (CDA) and, in parallel with this, to develop its learning analytics capability. The ultimate goal of this work is to improve the student experience by enterprise-wide implementation of the institutional objectives for CDA, which in turn will support delivery of the new University Strategic Delivery Plan approved in April 2021. Our aim for the future is to nurture students who, through their curriculum, learning, and the ways they are assessed, are equipped for the world of work, and life-long learning.
This project has full support and buy-in from across the senior and executive leadership of the University, alongside the Careers and Employability Service and the University's Quality and Standards Committee, and is a key enabler for our commitment as an organisation to reconceptualise and reconfigure our programme approval, programme design and programme review procedures. In parallel to this, the enhancement of our assessment and feedback processes, incorporating cutting-edge pedagogy, is a further high priority. Our hope is that this project will put us in a good position to lead the sector by securing the right technologies, without which the full benefits of improved CDA will not be realised. Together, CDA and these enabling technologies will grow our capability to make a step change in our practice, and also ensure that the digital solutions we design represent best value and future rather than current practice