Hertfordshire Computer Science Research Colloquium
                               2015-2016



         "Journey Making: Challenges and Solutions in the Design 
                         of Complex Curricula"

           Dr Ian Cameron, Professor in Chemical Engineering,
               (The University of Queensland, Australia)
 


Date: Friday June 3rd

Time: 12.30 for 13.00 start, light refreshments available. 
Seminar from 13.00-14.00

Location: Seminar Room B154, College Lane Campus


Please join us for this seminar from a highly regarded visiting speaker
during his brief stay in the UK, he has wide practical experience in
curriculum design and development. Please forward this invitation to
other colleagues for whom this could be of interest.

The topic:

Curricula design, deployment and delivery is at the heart of Higher
Education. Curricula constitute planned, integrated pathways of learning,
experienced by the student and facilitated by the institution and many
other players.


The design of such pathways remains a major challenge within HE
institutions by virtue of the inherent complexity of many programs, the
breadth of key stakeholders and the external requirements of national
government or professional bodies.

How can this be done more effectively? How can all stakeholders benefit
from improved processes, gain deeper insights into the designed curriculum
and generate a shared collegial ownership of the programs being delivered?

This session will discuss some of the current challenges, particularly
around the framing of learning units, their design, intended outcomes,
assessment and connectivity throughout whole programs.

Recent work at The University of Queensland, which started in Chemical
Engineering, will provide focus on the fundamental ideas behind curriculum
development as a complex systems application which has links to the
design of processing systems. This has led to a prototype environment, 
theJourneyMaker, which is now being developed as a web-based, enterprise
wide environment for curriculum design and evolution across all faculties
of the university.

The seminar will be participatory, so come expecting to think about
your own curricula and share your ideas. You can't totally relax on
Friday afternoon!




Speaker Biography:

Ian Cameron is a Professor in Chemical Engineering at The University
of Queensland and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of
Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). He received Chemical
Engineering degrees from the University of New South Wales and the
University of Washington. He is a Director and Principal Consultant at
Daesim Technologies, Brisbane.

He worked for a period of 10 years with a major multinational
manufacturing company having roles in process and control system design,
plant construction, commissioning, operations, risk management and
environmental protection.

He obtained his PhD and DIC from Imperial College London in the area
of Process Systems Engineering (PSE), subsequently working for 9 years
as a United Nations (UNIDO) process engineering consultant in Argentina
and Turkey.

At The University of Queensland, he has been responsible for many
teaching and learning innovations that have focussed on creating engaging
student learning environments, improving the nexus between theory and
practice via industry engagement, project based learning and the use of
virtual reality systems. He firmly believes that application of systems
engineering principles to higher education provides creative approaches
and long term innovative outcomes.

He has been responsible for the development of theJourneyMaker environment
for whole-of-program curriculum design that crosses all higher education
disciplines. He has advised many national and international higher
education institutions on curriculum development, particularly around
project centered approaches. He has received many awards for teaching and
learning including the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for University
Teacher of the Year.

He is an internationally known researcher on complex multiscale modelling,
risk management and intelligent systems for process diagnosis. He has
received the J.A. Brodie Medal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
for excellence in Chemical Engineering, as well as the Caltex Award for
Excellence in the teaching of Chemical Engineering.



Organizer for this special event: Prof. Amanda Jefferies (Computer Science)