Developing information systems curriculum has been a topic of discussion by information system educators and industry practitioners for many years. While the demand for information systems professionals continues to increase, the dynamic nature of the field will continue to challenge information systems educators to be creative and innovative in their approaches to curriculum development. The p...

PURPOSE A curriculum development model is presented to examine the processes necessary to develop new programs or evaluate existing programs within the philosophy of outcomes-based education in nursing, especially in the context of accreditation. The philosophy of outcomes-based education is to produce individuals who can demonstrate the evidence of competencies in designated areas of education...

BACKGROUND This paper retrospectively reports on an evaluation framework applied to a local interprofessional education (IPE) curriculum design. The theoretically informed IPE curriculum spans the undergraduate health and social care programmes of over 10 professions as a curriculum theme. The teaching design and its impact were informed by psycho-social and learning theories. AIMS This meta-...

We study the empirical strategies that humans follow as they teach a target concept with a simple 1D threshold to a robot.1 Previous studies of computational teaching, particularly the teaching dimension model and the curriculum learning principle, offer contradictory predictions on what optimal strategy the teacher should follow in this teaching task. We show through behavioral studies that hu...

We present a case study of a successful response to outsourcing, and IS job and enrollment declines through an IS curriculum redevelopment in a business school. First, we examine literature on outsourcing/offshoring phenomenon and on IS curricular redesign. A conceptual framework is presented that is useful in understanding the role of global collaborative group projects for learning about outs...

A well-designed and constructed course plan or curriculum is an integral part of the foundation of effective STEM instruction. This paper presents a framework for outcome-based course design that can be translated into a semantic web-based tool which guides STEM educators through the complex task of curriculum design, ensures tight alignment between various components of a course (i.e., learnin...

This paper develops principles for the ordering of the curriculum for tourism higher education. The framework proposed comprises four key domains of vocational action, vocational reflection, liberal reflection and liberal action. The framework enables the problems of curricula that are over-focused in one part of curriculum space to be surfaced. It also enables the case to be made, and the cont...

Employers, accreditation and government agencies increasingly call for academic degree programs to ensure and document that their curricula embody coherent courses of study that integrate statements of intended learning outcomes. This paper presents a comprehensive, structured curriculum mapping framework that will assist curriculum and accreditation self-study committees in evaluating how inte...

The purpose of this article is to explore the development of qualifications frameworks as a key element in the Bologna process, which aims to develop a European Higher Education Area by 2010. By setting up descriptors of learning outcomes, a European qualifications framework is intended as an instrument that enables Europe to coordinate and exchange qualifications. Furthermore, the article anal...