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Handbook of College and University Teaching: A Global Perspective presents international perspectives on critical issues impacting teaching and learning in diverse higher education environments, all with a unique global view. The need to understand learning and teaching from multiple cultural perspectives has become critically important in educating the next generation of college students. Education experts from around the world share their perspectives on college and university teaching, illuminating international differences and similarities. The chapters are organized around a model developed by James Groccia, which focuses on seven interrelated variables, including teacher, learner, learning process, learning context, course content, instructional processes, and learning outcomes. Using this logical model as the organizational structure of the book provides a guide for systemic thinking about what actions one should take, or suggest others take, when planning activities to improve teaching and learning, curriculum development, and assessment.
Strategic Curriculum Change
Strategic Curriculum Change
The curriculum is at the heart of learning and teaching in all institutions of higher education. The curriculum can be considered at several different levels, from the microenvironment of the module through to program, degree, and up to university, national, and supra-national curricula. There has been a recent global trend of large-scale, university-level curriculum change. This chapter uses data collected from a yearlong project exploring university-level curriculum change at research-intensive universities around the world to develop a dynamic model of curriculum change, exploring the forces for change, curriculum structures, and goals and outcomes.
There are convergent and divergent influences on curriculum change. For example, national policies may regulate and standardize the curriculum, whereas disciplinary and professional organizations may ...
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