Pre-Conference Workshop M4
M4 - Thinking Bigger and Broader: An Overview of Curriculum Design
Date Wednesday, Nov 22 Time – Price: 90.00 € Status: places available
Saul Carliner
Professor, Concordia University, Canada
Saul Carliner is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at Concordia University in Montreal, where his research focuses on the design of instructional and informational materials for the workplace, the management of groups that produce them, and related issues of policy.
Also an industry consultant, Carliner has provided strategic advice, and conducted workshops and evaluations for organisations like Alltel Wireless, Boston Scientific, PwC, ST Microelectronics, and several government agencies. He is the author of the best-selling Training Design Basics, award-winning Informal Learning Basics, and co-author of Career Anxiety: Guidance Through Tough Times, The e-Learning Handbook, and An Overview of Training and Development.
He is past President of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education, a Fellow of the Institute for Performance and Learning, past editor of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and a Fellow and past international president of the Society for Technical Communication.
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How does designing a collection of instructional programmes (a curriculum) differ from designing an individual one? Which competencies do learning and development professionals need to design curricula? How do these competencies differ from those needed to design individual programmes?
In this pre-conference workshop, participants experientially explore the answers to these questions. Specifically, participants engage in a process of working through these issues and, in the process, explore the distinctions between curriculum and programme design, while exploring such concepts as learning architecture, learning experience design, information architecture, information design, media selection, format selection, and strategic thinking.
Use the knowledge gained and competencies identified in this workshop to devise approaches to curriculum and programme design within your own organisation!
Agenda
- 10:00-10:45: Interactive activities to clarify the designing curricula competency
- 10:45-11:15: Discussion of key issues and presentation of evidence from the literature regarding curriculum design in several contexts
- 11:15-11:45: Coffee break
- 11:45-13:00: Participants will be invited to consider how to integrate this material into their own organisations