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TK!

Mapping a currucilum

Rotterdam University of Applied Science

Arthur van der Molen – June 2015

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Me…

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Occasion for change…

Review of curriculum Accreditation 2016 Professionalizing education development Need to capture quality of executionNeed to manage change program Managing improvement cycles

Curriculum design

Course design

Design principles

Course

Vision

Excecution

Feedback

Process...

INFORMATION

Process

Organization System

Cohesion...

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The issues

• In which course we work on competency x. y? • When is course exam reviewed ?• how many hours contact time we have in second year? • What books /readers do we use in which course? • BoKs element A, in which course is it in use?• Are we using X model? • What are the learning objectives in semester 3?• What about the quality of a course? • And a lot more questions ....

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Challenges in renewal and improvement process

• Unclear roles, tasks and results • Informal process…• difficult to manage• Slow process (annual cycle) • Manual / error-prone

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All information was contained in• MS Word documents• MS Excel spreadsheets• Websites• Grading system• And more…

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The Idea…

This can be done Better,more professional, and above all more thoroughly?

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•Model is the software•Agile and Interactive • Software deplayed into the Cloud • Secure and professional • Easy customizable •Maintainable

We use Mendix PAAS

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Contstruction of the model

• Domain model • Forms • business rules and logic • Controls • Authorizations

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Domain model

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En we hebben hoop informatie...

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Forms

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Detailview form

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Core data (June 2015)

• 66 courses • 633 learning objectives • 239 bugs/comments • 107 books (literature) • 431 BoKs elements • 37 teachers teaching

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Errors found

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Evaluations courses

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Issues not yet solved

• What are our educational principles?• What is the architecture of our curriculum?• When is something "good", what criteria? • Learning objectives, what detail?• Competences • Domain BoKs• Definition of terms

• same name but different meaning and purpose• Teachers dont always agree

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