Curricula Development: From Project to Process

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Curricula Development From Project to Process

• Curricula Development From Project to Process -
  from aSystematic Structured Curriculum
  Development Projectto aContinuous Improvement
  Process
• U. HolzbaurAAUAS
• NYASS
• Structural Considerations
• Bologna Criteria and Quality
• Curriculum and Project
• Integration of practical project workProjects in
  community services and regional development.

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Background and Motivation

• Ulrich. Holzbaur, Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Math,
  Prof. at AAUAS
• Project Management
• Industrial Software Systems Development,
  Lectures, Workshops
• Development Projects
• Software, Services, Events, Steinbeis Transfer
  Centre for Applied Management
• Curriculum Development and Implementation
• Wide and and diverse experience in lecturing and
  training
• Dean, School of Economics (Industrial Management,
  International Management, Economics for SMME)
• Development and CIP
• Quality Management
• Lectures and Practical Projects on ISO 9001,
  90012000, 16949, 14001EFQM, EMAS, CMM in
  production, manufacturing, social environment
• Didactics Projects
• Planning Games (focuses Economics, Engineering,
  sustainable development)
• Soft Skills , Project management, Teaching
  Mathematics via programming

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Bologna Aspects

• Quality Assurance Promotion of European
  cooperation in quality assurance
• Degree structure Adoption of a system
  essentially based on two main cycles
• Promotion of mobility
• Establishment of a system of credits
• Recognition of degreesAdoption of a system of
  easily readable and comparable degrees
• Higher education institutions and students
• Promotion of the European dimension in higher
  education
• Promoting the attractiveness of the European
  Higher Education Area
• Lifelong learning
• European Higher Education Area and European
  Research Area two pillars of the knowledge
  based society

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Quality of Education

• Quality Management - ISO 9001
• 5 Management responsibility Management
  commitment, Customer focus, Quality policy,
  Planning, Responsibility, Management review
• 6 Resource management Human resources,
  Infrastructure, Work environment
• 7 Product Realization Planning of product
  realization, Customer-related processes, Design
  and development planning, Service provision,
  Control of monitoring and measuring devices,
• 8 Measurement, analysis and improvement
• EFQM
• Results Orientation, Customer Focus, Leadership,
  Management by Processes Facts, People
  Development Involvement, Improvement,
  Partnership Development, Public Responsibility
• CMM
• accidentally (person) -gt planned (project) -gt
  controlled (process) -gt defined (process) -gt
  improving (process)

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Development Process Aims
SubjectAreasLevel
Methods of teaching and testing
Target Aims (Know-ledge, Abilities,Skills)
ContentsLevels
Curri culum
Ressources
Legal framework and requirements
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Aims of a course

• Professional
• Academic
• Knowledge
• Abilities
• Competences
• SkillsIntegration into the Landscape of
  Academia (University)

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Lifelong Learning
Research
Life-
Studies
learning
long
Professional Work
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Lifelong Learning -Implication
A variety of students A variety of situations
From - school- job- vocational education-
professional training
Studies
To schooljobvocational educationprofessional
training
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Competences

• Facts
• Knowledge
• Problem solving competence
• Social Competence
• Personal Competence
• Ethical Competence

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Development ProcessSubjects
SubjectAreasLevel
Methods of teaching and testing
Target Aims (Know-ledge, Abilities,Skills)
ContentsLevels
Curri culum
Ressources
Legal framework and requirements
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Basic DecisionGeneral Subject Areas
Theory vs. Training
Broad Basis vs. Specialisation and Options
Core Contents vs. Gerneral Studies
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ECTS and Workload

• Bachelor 180 CP
• Master 120 CP
• CP measure the workload
• 1 CP 30 hours workload
• Workload per semester 900 hours
• Half-year workload of a worker varies from 900
  (US) to 800 (GE)
• 220/2 days 8 hours 880 hours
• 900 hours / 40 h/w 22.5 weeks
• Workload contact time documentation
  preparation examination projects
• E.g. Project Management (W1)
• Old system 2 SWS
• New system 2 contact hours preparation
  project 30 20 50 hours 100 hours 3 CP

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Modularisation

• Any Module may consist of / contain
• Subjects, Lectures
• that belong to (one or several) other course
  curriculum(s)
• These modules must fit w.r.to.

Results workload/ credit points/
hoursprerequisites / admission criteria
Workload Subject
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Development ProcessContents
SubjectAreasLevel
Methods of teaching and testing
Target Aims (Know-ledge, Abilities,Skills)
contents and methods
Curri culum
Ressources
Legal framework and requirements
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Degrees of Specification
MechanicsDynamics OpticsWaves QuantumMechanics
Thermodynamics Statistical MechanicsThermal
Engines
Controlling Finance Management Marketing Balance,
Tax and Law Accounting Book-Keeping
Physics54321
Economics54321
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Modules

• Smaller units that provide a defined result
  (qualification)
• A Module may contain several
• teaching/ training units
• examinations
• methods
• A module may cover several (usually at most 2)
  semesters
• Module may contain
• Lectures
• Project / Practical Work
• Research
• Presentation

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People and Structure
Dont base structural decisions on persons
Persons last longer than the curriculum
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Development Process ressources and requirements
SubjectAreasLevel
Methods of teaching and testing
Target Aims (Know-ledge, Abilities,Skills)
ContentsLevels
Curri culum
Ressources
Legal framework and requirements
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Structure

• Course of studies
• Competences
• Knowledge
• Skills
• These must be broken down to
• Lecturing units
• Examinations
• University education is not only teaching but
  also enabling to learn
• Any lecturing unit has its own
• Contents (facts, knowledge, methods, competences)
• Methods of teaching / learning
• Mix of Methods
• Adequate methods of testing
• Problem in BaWü regulation, any lecture is
  accompanied by an examination.

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Development ProcessMethods
SubjectAreasLevel
Methods of teaching and testing
Target Aims (Know-ledge, Abilities,Skills)
ContentsLevels
Curri culum
Ressources
Legal framework and requirements
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Interrelations
competences
subjects
skills
methods
lectures
knowledge
activities
examinations
contents
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Should a Curriculum specify the Methods?
Legal Aspects Fairness Comparability Adequateness
Documentation Quality Assurance
Here-and-Now Flexibility Adaption to
theSituationContents Process Quality Management
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Methods of Learning/Methods of Teaching

• Lectures
• Group Work
• Lab/Field research
• Case Studies
• Planning Games
• Projects

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Comparison of Methods for Teaching
Effective / target oriented
Lectures
Planning Game
E-learning
Project Work
Teamwork
Practical work
Comparable, reproducable
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Comparison of Methods for Teaching
efficient / target oriented
Planning Game
Lectures
E-learning
Project Work
Teamwork
Practical work
effectiveness
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Examination

• Methods of Examination
• Writing
• Oral
• Project
• Development project
• Presentation
• Statistical Consoderations
• Teaching Coaching Testing the changing role
  of the Professors.

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Examination and Errors

• Statistical Approach (Test theory) Errors of
  Type I and II
• Problem of Separation/ Test Theory(Normal
  distribution)
• -gt more intensive testing
• -gt sequential testing (curriculum)

Fail Pass
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Stochastics
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Professor and Student

• The role of a professor in an teaching situation

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Comparison of Methods for Examination
reproducable
Written Examination
Presentation
Planning Games
Oral Examination
Project Work
comparable
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Methods for Development

• Morphological box/ matrix

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Curricula Development

• Top down
• Bottom up

Principles, Aims and Targets
Subject Areas, Curriculum Principles
Subjects, Lecturing Courses, Elective Courses
Lectures, Lecturing Unit, Teaching Units,
Examinations
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Practical project work

• Cooperation among
• Different semesters (1. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.) from
• Various project groups project (1),
  environmental management (7), quality management
  (7), computer science project (8)
• Students in their thesis (5. 6. 9.)
• Industry, community, regional government, local
  Agenda 21, police
• Project definition
• Vision and Deliverable items
• Work breakdown structure
• Milestones
• Course module for practical project framework
• Lectures
• Project
• Presentation

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Planning Games and Controlled projects

• planning gamemanagement game,simulation game
• Model, Simulation
• Controlled experiment
• Method of teaching
• Method of learning
• Project
• Real World
• Less control
• More motivation
• High effort for preparation
• Community impact

Next, let us lower the sales figures and measure
his stress symptoms
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Development Process Curriculum
SubjectAreasLevel
Methods of teaching and testing
Target Aims (Know-ledge, Abilities,Skills)
ContentsLevels
Curri Culum Implementiation
Ressources
Legal framework and requirements
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ExampleLU Project planning

• LU Project planning in
• Project (W1), Scientific Method and Project (W5),
  Project Management (OPE7/8), Environmental
  Management (B8), QE-Management (W7)
• Lecture
• Methods of Planning
• WBS Work Breakdown Structure
• Methods of estimating
• Exercises
• Guessing exercise, e.g. Guess the amount of money
  in a room (may also be part of a LU in
  Statistics)
• Case Study Project plan and experiences in
  real-world-Projects
• Planning game
• Project plan for building a ship model,
  Albuchmühle
• Students projects

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Example LU Environmental Reporting

• LU Environmental Reporting in
• Environmental Quality Management (W)
  Environmental Management (B,R)
• Lectures
• Regulations of EMAS, Environmental ethical
  communication
• Ecobalances, different kinds of energy and how to
  calculate
• XML-Structure (for Technical Editors)
• Case Study
• Any company, any report
• Planning game
• Prepare an environmental report (contents,
  structure, project)
• Albuchmühle planning game
• Project
• Preparation of an environmental report (contents,
  structure)
• Ranking of environmental reports
• Eco-Balance of a university, energy data of the
  university
• Gathering travelling distances of students

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Practical Projects community services

• Regional Marketing
• Regional food, food quality, supply chains,
  regional branding
• City logistics, City marketing, regional
  logistics
• Significance, notion and image of our region
• Tourism
• Guide for our academic visitors
• Engineering
• Sun-dial design for use and design for
  production
• Quality and Environmental Management
• for the university (evaluation, future workshop)
• for special institution (medical centre,
  kindergarten, administration, hotel)
• Security (with police city dept. of law and
  order)
• Participation in and evaluation of a survey
  (14000 people)
• Security feeling in school
• Alcohol sales (instruction at POS, evaluation of
  an information campaign)

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Curricula Development from Project to Process

• Quality Management
• ISO 9001 Management responsibility, Resource
  management, Product Realization, Design and
  development planning, Measurement, analysis and
  improvement
• EFQM Results - Customer - Processes -
  Improvement
• CMM from person-dependent results to
  continuously improving process
• Management involvement
• Processes and Ressources
• Continuous Improvement Process

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Development Process CIP
Imple-men-tation
Changes
Changes
Changes
Evaluation, Continuous Improvement
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Quality Management

• Quality Management SystemAuditing/ Certificate
• Organisational Self AssessmentSelf
  EvaluationPeer Evaluation
• CIP
• Students Evaluation
• Peers and Coaches
• Direct Feedback
• Individual Self Assessment

Institutional
Individual
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From Project to ProcessHypercycles

• A curriculum must be able to live and to be
  lived -gt implement structures for continuous
  improvement
• -gt Plan (priorities, strategy, curriculum)-gt
  Implement-gt Know (reporting, feedback,
  evaluation)-gt Analyse (reasons, effects)-gt
  React and Modify
• Even the structures must be able to evolve -gt
  Hypercycles -gt adaptive (not only learning)
  organisation

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