This paper presents the results of a qualitative research that investigates the presence of HCI disciplines in the Public Universities of Paraná State. Among the results, the research presents a comparison of the syllabus proposed by the Brazilian educational institutions with the syllabus offered by the HCI disciplines investigated. Information about the number of students, the period when the...

as many scholars believe, teaching persian language, that as the second language in the muslim world, is a window for knowing and understanding the culture and civilization of iran, requires specialized curriculum development. this research is aimed to present the reading comprehension skill for upper-intermediate learners in the field of islamic sciences on the basis of task-based approach and...

The establishment of the European Higher Education Area has involved specifying lists of professional competencies that programs are expected to develop, and with this the need for procedures to measure how every course within a higher education program is aligned with the program's competencies. We propose an instrument for characterizing this alignment, a process that we call assessing the re...

This paper summarises a research study that investigated the potential of the Queensland secondary school subject Modern History to adopt characteristics of socially critical environmental education (SCEE). The study arose out of my own classroom practice. While teaching Modern History in Queensland schools, I found the dividing line between human problems and environmental ones was often blurr...

The development and implementation of language teaching programs can be approached in several different ways, each of which has different implications for curriculum design. Three curriculum approaches are described and compared. Each differs with respect to when issues related to input, process, and outcomes, are addressed. Forward design starts with syllabus planning, moves to methodology, an...

A syllabus forms the structure of a course (or program) offering and is used to assemble its constituents. Course websites and LMS’s, also contain similar information, and in some sense, are quite similar to course outlines or syllabi, and replicate some of the information that can also be found in administrative websites of universities. From a system perspective, this duplication and dispersi...