Curriculum Development
Steps:
- Lead faculty designs the curriculum using already approved courses and/or creating new courses.
- The curriculum is shared with the department and/or college according to the policies of the academic department.
- The department/college reviews and approves the curriculum.
- If new courses were created a new course form is submitted to Curriculog.
Questions to Consider:
Program/Curriculum Design
- How many start dates to the program are available yearly?
- What is the designated time to complete the program?
- How many credits are required for completion of the program?
- Will you work with instructional designers to help form your curriculum plan?
- What courses and experiences will make up the proposed degree?
- How many of the courses in the curriculum are completely new courses?
- Get necessary approval for new courses.
- Who are your faculty?
- Indicate all that apply:
- Lock-step program (components must be taken sequentially with no breaks)
- Full-time required
- Part-time allowed
- Program can be started and stopped
- Program is calendared (specific start and end dates to courses/components)
- Program is self-paced (students can complete requirements as slowly or quickly as desired)
- Synchronous online time (students must meet online at a particular time)
- Utilize Curriculog, an online interface that allows programs, minors, courses and off-campus programs and courses to be proposed, created, assessed, revised, approved, and implemented.
Learning Management System (LMS)
- What LMS will you use?
- Ensure that all business systems and chosen technologies integrate with the LMS.
Content Delivery Plan
- How will the content be delivered and where? (online, personal website, YouTube, LMS)
- What LMS will you use?
- Does the program require any of the following face-to-face components? (lab, clinical, internship/externship, exams, instruction/courses, international experience/study abroad)
- Indicate the frequency of the face-to-face components.
- Indicate the location of the face-to-face components.
- Describe the barriers to offering the face-to-face components online.
Who is Involved:
Faculty (Initiator)
TLT (collaborator)
Process Map:
