Akari: A Buyer’s Guide to Curriculum Management Software.

The value of a higher education experience and the content delivered to students are under increasing pressure.

A university’s provision is now scrutinised by several external bodies that act in the student’s best interest. If found in violation, the provider can face significant financial and reputational consequences.

Akari: Risk of Contract Cheating: How can assessment design be an effective mitigation strategy?

Authentic assessments by design were recurrently discussed as solutions to help to minimize instances of cheating. Arguably such assessment methods are harder to contract out. Using a mixture of assessment methods has been recommended, both in controlled and ‘uncontrolled’ environments, written and oral, clinical, presentations and portfolios, as well as group and peer assessment.

Akari: Partnership and Curriculum Management for Transnational Education

The new TNE approach subtly eliminates the concept of exporting knowledge from the home country to host country but instead offering activities impacting innovations through joint knowledge production at the breath of delivering quality curriculum and motivating collaborative research by leveraging strengths of both parties.

AKARI: Integrating UN SDGs Into Curriculum Design and Research

Multiple case studies have been published and presented by universities and researchers as to how the SDG inventories are tracked and reported. A review of these published case studies indicated a similar pattern of integration to integrate SDG goals into curriculum design and research. A mapping strategy is applied to recognise existing contributions of the university which leads to identification of gaps, opportunities, and contributors of SDG goals through multiples research, teaching and learning activities and social activities.

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