Rethinking the curriculum
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The document discusses a community meeting focused on rethinking the curriculum at Sunderland, aiming to address student-centered approaches, employability, and global challenges through curriculum change. It highlights key discussions around motivations, types of curriculum changes, successful examples, and institutional challenges related to educational transformation. The conversation underscores the necessity for structural support and capacity building to facilitate meaningful pedagogic changes in response to the evolving educational landscape.
Rethinking the curriculum
- 1. Rethinking the Curriculum BDC and DEI Community of Practice: Community Discussion 30th November 2021
- 2. Session Structure • Share our considerations on rethinking the curriculum at Sunderland • Series of questions to shape discussion • Sharing of successes • Consideration of challenges
- 3. Rethinking the Curriculum at Sunderland • Student centred curriculum • Balance uncertainty, ability to change and innovation • Increase student numbers • Enhance employability • Address global challenges – curriculum content • Pedagogy for the future • Educational technology for the future • Skillset for academy and for students
- 4. Need for Change • Changing environment • Funding model • Global challenges – climate, equity • Balance competing drivers • The digital campus • University change – what will success look like ?
- 5. Discussion – Question 1 • What are your drivers / motivations for curriculum change ?
- 6. Discussion – Question 2 • What types of curriculum change are you considering ? • Structure – module size, block delivery, semester size, 52 weeks • Delivery mode • Inclusion of generic topics – EDI, sustainability, digital • Align to external bodies, eg subject benchmarks, PSRB changes
- 7. Discussion – Question 3 • What examples of successful curriculum change would you like to share
- 8. Discussion – Question 4 • What are the blockages to curriculum change at your institutions ?
- 9. Discussion – Question 5 • What other challenges are you facing
- 10. Main themes / threads from discussion • Tease out main points / issues / examples
- 11. Summary • What’s needed and next steps • Whatever happens with University education one thing is certain and that is that there will be change • We need to have the building blocks in place to enable it to happen • National structure • University structure to support curriculum change • University frameworks to enable pedagogic change • QA • Systems • Capacity • Staff skills • Educational technology to enable pedagogic change • Student expectations • Size of challenge – tinkering at edges or a fully scaled revolution