Planning and preparation

• Develop detailed project management plan
• Employ project manager and establish reference group.
• Develop and submit ethics application.
• Project manager to develop and implement a project team communication strategy including records, meetings, repositories, reporting etc.
• Develop Auditing Tool
• Confirm external evaluator and develop evaluation framework
• Project team to reflect on, and document learning from Stage 1 of the Project.

Stage 1: Auditing

• Survey administered to key assurance of learning administrators across all Australian Universities providing business education
• Focus group with selection of key stakeholders to discuss initial findings and to refine audit tool
• Formative evaluation by project team and document learning from Phase 1
• Report progress to the Project Reference Group.
• Dissemination of project learning by ‘workshopping the findings’ at biannual T&L Network meeting.

• Survey administered to key assurance of learning administrators across all Australian Universities providing the relevant education for each sector
• Focus group with selection of key stakeholders to discuss findings and their implications
• Formative evaluation by project team and document learning from Phase 2.
• Report progress to the Project Reference Group.

Stage 2: Analyses

• Analyse audit data
• Compare findings with International Bodies (for example, QAA, AACSB)
• Prepare Strategic Paper
• Formative evaluation by project team and reflection on learning from Phase 3.
• Year 1 report submitted to the OLT and Project Reference Group.

Stage 3: Resources

• Develop online resources to support mapping and data collection for assuring learning
• Review and recommend tools to make mapping and data collection more efficient (including adapting existing tools to suit the purpose)

• Dissemination workshops (one in each of the five mainland states) to showcase and disseminate the strategic paper and resources.

• Presentation of Findings: ABDC, ABDC T&L Network and other discipline related groups.
• Academic conferences and publications.
• Formative evaluation by project team and reflection on learning from Phase 4.

Review and Reporting

• Evaluation report by external evaluator.
• Final report submitted to OLT and Reference Group.