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

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. Applications to join the framework are invited from: •Companies providing end-to-end online course development (Lot 1) •Agencies and companies providing specific services (Lots 2a-2f)

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.