Curriculum sequencing is central to promoting a coherent student experience. Yet in the higher education context, the concept and practice of curriculum sequencing have not been fully explored. This research examined how seven programme teams approached the issue of sequencing across two Irish higher education institutions. A phenomenological approach was used to explore actions, challenges, an...

While promotional literature about computer science programs may claim that curricula are determined by the needs of the students and by international best practice, the reality is often different. In this paper we reflect on the factors underlying curriculum change in computer science departments and schools, from institutional requirements and financial pressures to purely academic considerat...

Smartphones are being adopted en-masse throughout the world. Its adoption in education has witnessed a diversity of implementations with various outcomes. In particular, seamless learning is a broad pedagogical approach key in mobile learning design. With the goals of enhancing academic achievement and self-directed learners, a trial smartphone-enabled implementation was carried out for a unit ...

We present a perspective on the design of a curriculum for a new computer science program at a women sliberal arts college. The design incorporates lessons learned at the college in its successful implementation of other academic programs, incorporation of best practices in curriculum design at other colleges, results from studies performed on various computer science programs, and a significan...

BACKGROUND No universal solution, based on an approved pedagogical approach, exists to parametrically describe, effectively manage, and clearly visualize a higher education institution's curriculum, including tools for unveiling relationships inside curricular datasets. OBJECTIVE We aim to solve the issue of medical curriculum mapping to improve understanding of the complex structure and cont...

Promoting access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities has emerged as a central theme of recent legislative and policy initiatives. Ensuring that students with severe disabilities benefit fully from the myriad learning and social opportunities available through the general curriculum remains an important challenge, particularly at the secondary level. We discuss peer support ...

In this project, we aimed to revise the medical ethics curriculum at the School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, in order to promote the level of students' ethical awareness and enable them to make ethical decisions. Ideal and long term educational objectives were set to determine directions for future reforms and to provide a baseline for future evaluation of the project. Ho...

BACKGROUND The experience of transitioning to an academic faculty position can be improved with standardized educational interventions. Although a number of such interventions have been described, few utilize an evaluation framework, describe a robust evaluation process, and address why their interventions were successful. In this article, the authors apply a logic model to describe their effor...

Tools of the Mind is a curriculum that aims to promote cognitive and academic outcomes for kindergarten students by focusing on “executive function” as the central process to the development of students’ academic and social competencies. Tools of the Mind is based on the ideas of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Instruction is individualized through teacher scaffolding, and dramatic play is a...