26 Broadening blueprints
The blueprints provide guidance for designing, implementing and evaluating specific pedagogic designs developed and piloted by the DDG.
The Broadening initiative consists of three distinct learning formats:
- Jam,
- Open,
- Block.
These formats provide flexible study formats throughout the calendar year, and foster diverse opportunities for open engagement, learning and development. Existing students, University staff, and others outside the institution (both locally and globally) can benefit from these engaging learning opportunities.
Each pathway is informed by, and based on, evidence. They provide routes into learning that complement existing offers across the University. You can consider the designs to offer scaffolded learning experiences for Structured, Open, Unbounded, Learner-Led (SOUL) modules. We developed blueprints primarily to shape the Broadening initiative in the form of non-credit-bearing courses for a wider learning population. However, they can also be considered as a whole. Alternatively, elements of each blueprint can be used by the teams of existing academic programmes and modules, as well as for further collaborations also partnerships between staff, students and others to provide informal current or future lifewide, lifelong and open learning opportunities or alternative pedagogical approaches to expand and further diversity engagement in learning.
In addition to the Jam, Open and Block blueprints, you have an opportunity to develop additional examples using alternative formats and designs. This may include the remixing of current blueprint features and/or through the introduction of novel new ideas.
This document focuses on the Jam blueprint.
