Instructional consultants can playa crucial role in curricular reform. They gather evaluation and assessment data about the current curriculum sothatfaculty decisions about improvements are based on empirical evidence. They organizeandfacilitate meetings and retreats at whichfaculty make curricular decisions, and they provide pedagogical expertise and resources to help with course design andenh...

This qualitative inquiry project investigates the political and policy discourses related to education reform in Taiwan. Specifically, it examines the science education reform policies and policy leaders’ vision for the reform. This work also reveals the unique challenges involved in implementing contemporary science education approaches in a Confucian learning culture. Data sources included re...

Project English was born in 1962, a late addition to the curriculum reform movement in the USA that grew out of the Cold War race to dominate outer space. The Oregon Curriculum Study Center, one of the initial 12 Project English centers, took as its goal the complete reformation of the secondaryschool language arts curriculum and the education of its teachers. During its 6-year run, the Oregon ...

This paper presents an overview of the Beijing government’s policy and implementation on primary English curriculum reform. TEYL in Beijing is undergoing an important phase of innovation along with challenges featured by differences in quality of teaching and learning between urban and rural areas due to shortage of qualified teachers and high quality materials and technology. Teachers’ profess...

Every institution needs a focus; no institution can prosper if it neglects its core business. Industry has lately recognized this, and the benefits have been dramatic: well-designed products, on-time delivery, zero defects, a motivated workforce, satisfied customers, economic competitiveness, and financial benefits for employees, shareholders, communities, and society at large. A university is ...

Th e Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney has recently undertaken signifi cant undergraduate curriculum reform aimed at reducing the number of similar, overlapping units of study and increasing the opportunities for disciplinary mingling at an undergraduate level. Th is paper presents some preliminary fi ndings concerning the impact of curriculum change in the context of a sin...

Successful elementary and secondary educational reform requires analogous reform in teacher education; however, the standard undergraduate setting in schools of education poses considerable obstacles. In this paper, we describe the STEP environment for distributed problem-based learning (www.eSTEPweb.org), which represents one of many efforts to create a viable model for teacher education refor...

This paper introduces several new guiding ideologies in “the Principle of Computer Organization” course reform, based on the purpose of application-oriented personnel training, namely teaching according to the students aptitude, focusing on students’ capacity-building, emphasizing both theories and experiments. In the practice of curriculum teaching, we focus on the training and enhancing of st...