PE2022-23/1470 Digital Education Service Framework for Online learning design, development, technical and project management services

• Value: £400K

The University of Leeds Digital Education Service seeks to establish strong relationships with suppliers of online learning design, development, technical and project management services for project-based working. This framework agreement will enable the Digital Education Service to be responsive to demand and provides additional capacity to complement the expertise within our established in-house design and development team. Services will be required for full or part(s) of the end-to-end design and development of fully online degree modules, short courses or professional learning (CPD) courses, or where specific professional skills are required to supplement our in-house online learning teams on a temporary basis. •Companies providing end-to-end online course development (Lot 1)

• Value: £400K

LOT 2. Course development services Under Lot 2, tenders are invited from companies and agencies to provide services under one or more of the six skill groups (a-f) . The purpose of Lot 2 is to enable contracting of specialists on a temporary basis to work on discrete projects as part of a project team comprising internal and/or external team members. The six skill groups are defined below: a)Online education project management – overseeing design and development of substantial projects comprising multiple short courses/modules. b)Senior learning designer / learning designer – providing learning design workshop at the start of projects to produce a course outline; providing quality review of authored work; providing quality review of built assets. c)Educational copy editor / proof-reader – contracted by project/group of courses to proof-read according to defined style guide either pre-build or on learning platforms and provide tracked-changes document. d)Digital learning developer – building content into learning packages, e.g. Articulate Rise, Evolve. e)Learning technologist – testing accessibility compliance of assets; scoping solutions by working with academic and learning design teams; problem-solving platform issues. f)Digital designer (education) - creation of visual assets with an understanding of instructional requirements for education. If a supplier can offer services in more than one area, they should submit a tender response for each area they wish to provide services for.