An OER etext for graduate students in education and curriculum developers

Subjects or knowledge are broken down into smaller seemingly unrelated bits of information to be learned. This design stresses content and tends to neglect the needs, interests, and …

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8 Designing and Assessing Aims, Goals, Objectives (AGO) “The continual dialogue and reflection on aims [should come] at a time when economics, advancement in social status, and …

Backward Design as a Curriculum-Development Model Neither backward design nor “frontloading” the curriculum is better than the other. It just depends. The real questions are: …

I recall his office being filled with broken projectors, films, and other devices. Fast forward to my next teaching position in the 1980s at a middle school in northern Colorado.

Summary The scope and theory of curriculum provide the basis for planning, designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum. Once the curriculum developers decide …

Curriculum change is inevitable in any society. These changes occur because there is not perfect curriculum, and there is most often a need to adjust to the economic, technological, social, …

Part 1: Curriculum Foundations, Definitions, and Trends Acquiring Background in Curriculum from a Personal Perspective; Its Connection to History, Orientations, and Current Trends With …

Part IV: Becoming familiar with the varied roles and complexities of assessment By carefully considering the variety in types of educational assessment processes and how evaluation can …