quality improvement project Rotterdam University of Applied science

1. TK!
Mapping a curriculum
Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Arthur van der Molen – March 2016
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2. Me…
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3. Occasion for change…
Review of curriculum
Accreditation 2016
Professionalizing education development
Need to capture quality of execution
Need to manage change program
Managing improvement cycles
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4. Curriculum design
Course design
Design principles
Course
Vision
Excecution
Feedback
Process...

5. INFORMATION
Process
Organization System
Cohesion...

6. The issues
• In which course we work on competency x. y?
• When is course exam reviewed ?
• how many hours contact time we have in second year?
• What books /readers do we use in which course?
• BoKs element A, in which course is it in use?
• Are we using X model?
• What are the learning objectives in semester 3?
• What about the quality of a course?
• And a lot more questions ....
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7. Challenges in renewal and improvement
process
• Unclear roles, tasks and results
• Informal process…
• difficult to manage
• Slow process (annual cycle)
• Manual / error-prone
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8. All information was (is) contained
in
• MS Word documents
• MS Excel spreadsheets
• Websites
• Grading system
• And more…
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9. The Idea…
This can be done
Better,
more professional,
and above all
more thoroughly?
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11. •Model is the software
•Agile and Interactive
•Software deplayed into the Cloud
•Secure and professional
•Easy customizable
•Maintainable
We use Mendix PAAS
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12. Construction of the model
• Domain model
• Forms
• business rules and logic
• Controls
• Authorizations
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Domain model

14. Lots of info
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15. Forms
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16. Detailview form
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17. Core data (March 2016)
• 68 courses
• 599 learning objectives
• 261 issues/comments
• 107 books (literature)
• 454 BoKs elements
• 37 teachers teaching
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18. Errors found
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19. Evaluations courses
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20. Issues not yet solved
• A real quality culture….
• What are our educational principles?
• What is the architecture of our curriculum?
• When is something "good", what criteria?
• Learning objectives, what detail?
• Competences
• Domain BoKs
• Definition of terms
• same name but different meaning and purpose
• Teachers don’t always agree
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