Curriculum Development Case Study

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2.1. Curriculum as Central Issue :
Curriculum development for a given course include identification of number of subjects as per the duration of the course, details of each subject including number of chapters, objective of each chapter, depth of each chapter, topics to be covered in each chapter, skills to be developed at the end of the study of each chapter, the experiments/projects to be completed in each chapter, the important references, the assignments to be completed after each chapter, etc. Since curriculum is the central issue of all courses in higher education system, special care must be given while developing new curriculum, and restructuring/revision of curriculum. Different methods of curriculum development include :
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The teacher talks, while the students exclusively listen. During activities, students work alone, and collaboration is discouraged. When education is teacher-centered, the classroom remains orderly. Students are quiet, and the teacher retains full control of the classroom and its activities. Here, the students learn on their own, they learn to be independent and make their own decisions and the teacher directs all classroom activities, they don’t have to worry that students will miss an important topic. When students work alone, they don’t learn to collaborate with other students, and communication skills may suffer. Teacher-centered curriculum and its instruction can get boring for students due to the fact that it doesn’t allow students to express themselves, ask questions and direct their own learning. This is a one-to-many system and only the teacher decides the objective of learning of the subject, the pedagogy, the evaluation methods, and the result of the study. This method is used in many autonomous autocratic higher education

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