Planning Teaching & Learning

Curriculum Design & Development

Farah Naz
 Chapter Overview

⮚ Learning outcome approach to curriculum design

⮚ Bloom’s Taxonomy
⮚ Credit level Descriptors
⮚ Curriculum Design & Development
⮚ Logical Model of Curriculum Development
⮚ Modified Curriculum Development Model
⮚ Curriculum development in an E-learning environment
 Introduction

Why is it important to give attention to curriculum

design and development?
 - Specialist knowledge
Graduate attributes - General intellectual skills
- Personal qualities

Course Intended learning outcomes

Subject learning objectives/outcomes

Assessment tasks

Assessment criteria
Learning Outcome Approach to Curriculum Design
 Meaningful Learning Outcome

Academics find it difficult to address meaningful

learning outcome
So
How do meaningful learning outcome look like?

Cognitive outcomes include
demonstrable acquisition of
specific knowledge and skills
gained through the
programme of study.
Student
attributes Affective outcomes are the
characteristics associated with
learning experience impacted
on students’ values, goals,
attitudes, self-concepts, social
interactions and
behaviors(Frye, 1999)
Learning outcomes should be
pitched at the right level so as
to specify the complexity or
significance of the situation in
which the learner is expected
to demonstrate the behavior.

The writing of
learning outcomes
should reflect the
students’ increasing
competence
(Bingham,1999)
 Credit Level Descriptors

Credit level descriptors can be used by

which each subject area can check the level
of complexity, relative demand and
autonomy expected of a learner on
completion of a unit or programme of
learning.
 Guidelines for Credit Level Descriptors

⮚ Development of knowledge and

understanding (subject specific)
⮚ Cognitive/intellectual skills (generic)
⮚ Key transferable skills (generic)
⮚ Practical skills (subject specific)

(SEEC, 2001)
 Where Level Descriptors are used?

⮚Curriculum design and development

⮚Framework of Higher education

⮚Development of learning outcomes(both

credit level descriptors & qualification
framework)
“Constructive Alignment”
(Biggs, 2005)

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 Steps involved in Aligning Outcomes, Teaching and
Learning Activities and Assessment

1. Clearly define the learning

outcomes.
2. Select teaching and learning If the learning
methods that are likely to ensure outcomes are
that the learning outcomes are clearly written,
achieved. the assessment is
3. Choose a technique or techniques quite easy to plan!
to assess the achievement of the
learning outcomes.
4. Assess the learning outcomes and
check to see how well they match
with what was intended 18
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Key steps in Effective Course & Curriculum Identify aims and objectives of course/program

Write learning outcomes using standard

guidelines (objectives)

Plan the content

Design

Plan the teaching/learning and compile list of

resources

Design assessment to check if

learning outcomes have been achieved

If necessary modify course content and

assessment in light of feedback
The Logical Model of Curriculum Development

Cowan and Harding (1986)

Modification in Cowan’s Model for
Curriculum Development
Views of Curriculum (Biggs,1999
 Curriculum Design in an E-learning
Environment

According to Clark & Mayer(2002),it includes

the development of learning materials, activities,
practice elements (often using technology) and
evaluation of all teaching and learning activities.
 Evaluation

Student learning Efficacy of the teaching

processes