2020-2021
Program Director: Fiona Salisbury (La Trobe University and then Western Sydney University)
As the role of education in society is challenged and redefined by changes in the global economy, the new nature of work, and rapid technological advances, enabling a modern curriculum is essential.
A modern curriculum is defined by lifelong learning, student success, digital dexterity, career readiness, and new learning paradigms. University libraries are well placed to build national partnerships for innovation and to work with academics to lead the transformation of learning and teaching at their institutions.
A modern curriculum can be achieved by reimagining skill development, services, spaces, and resources. Innovation can be driven through the development of sustainable, affordable, and collective approaches to the provision of learning and information resources and the collective development of learning and information resources with access, equity, affordability, and diversity at their heart.
Through the Enabling a Modern Curriculum Program, CAUL prioritised library clients’ needs and promoted the success and career readiness of current and future university students and graduates.
The Enabling a Modern Curriculum program focused on three key priorities in 2021-22:
- Advocating for and enabling the adoption of open educational practices through the creation and adoption of open educational resources
- Exploring and enabling student partnerships as a means of enabling university libraries to support modern curriculum
- Delivering a conference focused on the Program’s theme.