Our work

The platform is a unique development in the Irish higher education landscape bringing together accredited short courses from different universities on to one central platform with course information, enquiries, and enrolment segregated and controlled by each institution.

Santa Clara University’s School of Education was working on a new online version of its Masters Programme in Teaching to be launched in the fall of 2023. This programme is being produced in response to the growing demand for a flexible option for students wishing to study and to receive a teaching credential at the … A high quality learning experience for education students at Santa Clara University

Curio worked with UHI to scope out the key requirements for a new intranet to improve the level and quality of communication across the multiple partner institutions to build a community of shared working practice. 

As an Instructure partner, Curio has the expertise to develop custom solutions for Canvas LMS and was able to provide a solution for MBS and their client.

Curio partnered with a Group of 8 university, who were moving their hugely successful foundations course in Cyber Security to the online environment. The academic leads had effectively embedded a social learning model where students co-created and shared a “class textbook”, security tips and case studies that built upon content covered in lectures and readings. They sought a partner who could embed the enigmatic personalities of their academic leads and effective social learning model into the new delivery mode to reach their students across the globe.

Enabling a Russell Group university to transition to online quickly and cost-effectively through upskilling academics and uplifting existing programmes.

Read this case study of our work with Keele University to hire, contract and onboard an expert online facilitator for their newly launched MBA course.

APA is Australia’s professional physiotherapists’ peak membership body and delivers a large portfolio of education and CPD to physiotherapists, including online products. APA sought to explore the opportunity to expand its education offerings to international physiotherapists to increase revenue to reinvest in member value in Australia. APA engaged Curio to: Assess APA’s unique strengths and … A strategy to grow educational offerings into international markets for APA

One of the UK’s well-known universities for being a key player in world-leading research activity approached Curio to help them overcome the staff shortages they faced when delivering their master’s programmes in Data Science and AI. Delivering the resource to scale The university saw a rapid increase in student enrolments in both their Data Science … Expert online tutors for the delivery of Data Science postgraduate programmes

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a not-for-profit philanthropic research and teaching organisation which aims to develop individuals in the sciences sector to achieve advances in the sciences. Howard Hughes was looking for support to develop their Canvas LMS, to improve the presentation of their brand in the market and ensure that they had the … Uplifting the Canvas environment for the Howard Hughes Institute

In 2021, Curio successfully designed and delivered a collaboratively career-focused course comprising three micro-credentials to each of the six institutions. “Designing your Future” commenced as a collaboration with Stanford University and Curio successfully designed and developed an online opportunity available to thousands of students.

Curio Academy brought together expertise across course design, development and delivery to build a tailored training package.

In 2020, we partnered with a leading technology university on a pilot project to develop a series of micro-credentials and provide expertise on the design and development of their micro-credential ecosystem. The credentials enable the delivery of high quality, stackable postgraduate micro-credentialled content online, each representing 30 hours of learning. They focus on various themes … High-quality micro-credentials for a leading technology university

Grady Hancock shares our engagement with the University of Sydney to redesign of their gateway unit of study for Geography, Environmental Studies and Geology.

Kids First is an independent child and family services provider and early education specialist. Their vision is for all children and young people to thrive in resilient, strong and safe families and communities. Stand Up! is a face-to-face, facilitated experience for students over four sessions. The program is so popular it was difficult to further … Kids First Stand Up! program

In 2020, we started our partnership to provide online tutors for one of their clients, a leading Russell Group collegiate university. Through this partnership, we deliver online short courses designed for professionals working in government and public bodies, which enable them to upskill through flexible, remote learning.  

Phoenix Australia deliver world-leading mental health and trauma training, programs of research and knowledge translation. Demand for Phoenix’s training increased significantly after Australia’s devastating bush fires over the 2020-21 summer season, before increasing again as Covid-19 hit. With all training delivered face to face, Phoenix sought to rapidly move online to meet demand at this critical time across the country.

We worked collaboratively with a leading accountancy membership body to develop the future state vision of their digital learning ecosystem. Their new vision placed members and their personal learning journeys at its centre. The organisation was in the process of shifting to a new direction in professional development and embracing digital technologies to create unique learner experiences. ​

One of Australia’s largest accounting organisations with a membership of more than 160,000 members in over 100 countries approached us to help them develop their offering to provide a compelling experience for the next generation of learners.

Curio was engaged by the SAC Council to undertake a feasibility study into the proposal and advise SAC on whether to progress the proposal. The project was to assess the strategic, commercial and financial feasibility of the proposal. 

The University of Nottingham is a public university with campuses across the UK, China and Malaysia. The University of Nottingham’s Quality Manual contains the University’s policies and regulations across each of its campuses. With a number of content editors across different schools and departments, the structure and contents of the manual had become unwieldly and … An enhanced content experience for students and staff worldwide

Curio worked closely with the AUT Learning Transformation LAB (altLab) to design a robust, user-friendly Canvas template to roll out during the LMS migration to improve the user experience. 
Together, we developed a detailed brief of requirements for the template and identified common elements that would be used across faculties and departments. The aim of the template was to provide a consistent look and feel across all courses with sufficient flexibility to cater for the wide range of courses offered by AUT. 

As a partner with one of Australasia’s leading universities, we are consistently providing our expert services to create excellent learning experiences for students to gain industry-specific knowledge and practical skills. We collaborated with this institution to combat their problem of insufficient availability of academic and learning design resource to support and translate the common discursive experience of a law course into an asynchronous online course.

The Trust was asked by Health Education England to solve the problem of trying to support the management teams of the national mental health workforce. They approached Curio to help build an online toolkit to help managers and workforce planners develop their teams.

The Assessment Research Centre (ARC) is a leading research unit, with a focus on improving assessments, reporting, and credentialing in universities and industry. Through a program of research, commercialisation, teaching and engagement, the Centre aims to solve challenges that face education and training providers. Part of this work involves the creation and delivery of nanoMOOCs, … Creation and delivery of nanoMOOCs hosted in Canvas

An NGO which sets and maintains standards around the world for sustainable fishing wanted to formulate a vision for how technology could improve and deepen interactions with its stakeholders. Curio dived into the datasets and systems to help provide the answer.

RMIT’s College of Business and Law wished to update their offerings in response to whole-of-university changes to blended learning. The College of Business and Law approached Curio with the challenge: “How should we change our MBA to embrace blended learning opportunities?”. 

The University of Sydney has seen incredible results from the International Arrivals Program since its launch. A dedicated Arrivals Program team, supported by a multitude of stakeholders across the University, Study NSW, NSW Government, and FCM Travel, have worked tirelessly in a continuously changing environment to ensure that students receive the support they require as … Custom Canvas template for University of Sydney’s Arrivals Program

Working with our customer partners we identified a need for a web application which could provide simple, beautiful, custom portals for learners to discover, register and pay for education experiences.

The Institute of Positive Education is an initiative by Geelong Grammar School aimed at improving student wellbeing. Curio Digital worked with the Institute to co-design the Positive Education Enhanced Curriculum (PEEC) portal. PEEC is a research-based explicit Positive Education curriculum that has been developmentally sequenced from Early Learning (age four) through to Year 12.