Project LEAD is a CUTSD-funded Project. LEAD is an acronym for Leading and Evaluating Advancements in Delivery. The Project has been designed to support individuals, teams and work groups in self-directed, change processes. The focus of the Program is facilitation of more effective action in designing, developing, producing and delivering more flexible learning environments.

The interests and goals set by team or work group members have determined the shape and scope of Project LEAD activities. Different contexts and different patterns of need have resulted in quite different organisational forms and processes for Project LEAD-supported action learning teams and work groups.

The Project has evolved as a network structure of self-directed work teams and related interest groups. The common thread that characterises the network is a particular interest in meeting the challenges of curriculum design and delivery for the new UOW campus opening up in Nowra in the year 2000.

There are currently four Action Learning teams/work groups being supported by Project LEAD. These include:

• a multi-functional group representing information management processes that constitute the design, development, production and delivery infrastructure for flexible learning environments
  
  
• a curriculum innovation-focussed work group within the Arts Faculty, whose aim is to develop a coherent and integrated curriculum for delivery in the South Coast BA.
  
  
• a multi-skilled group of professional Education Developers within the Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources, whose aim is to redefine their role, function and public profile in line with emerging needs within the University
  
  
• a Departmental workgroup in Engineering Physics concerned with a wide range of change management issues in reconceptualising curriculum structure and implementation for more student-focussed and flexible learning environments
  

This poster presentation demonstrates how Action Learning teams can evolve and change as they work on and transform understandings, relationships and systems of action in everyday practice. The poster highlights the conditions that are necessary for Action Learning teams to function effectively and the possibilities that limit what can be achieved. The statement by one team member that perhaps best describes the purpose of action learning teams is: