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This document outlines a course on curriculum development. It details 7 modules that cover topics like forces influencing curriculum, curriculum designs, developing and evaluating curriculum, and integrating technology. Each module has multiple sections and subsections on specific related topics.

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Course Outline

This document outlines a course on curriculum development. It details 7 modules that cover topics like forces influencing curriculum, curriculum designs, developing and evaluating curriculum, and integrating technology. Each module has multiple sections and subsections on specific related topics.

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COURSE OUTLINE

I. Curriculum and Program Development


A. Module 1: Overview of curriculum development, revision, and Evaluation in the
healthcare and academic settings
1. Historical perspectives
2. Current trends and issues
B. Module 1: External Forces Influencing Curriculum Development
1. Health care needs and demographics of the population to be served
2. Needs of the healthcare system, e.g., cultural sensitivity, critical thinking,
clinical
decision-making, interprofessional collaboration and education
3. Healthcare agency outcomes, e.g. JACHO accreditation results
4. Standards of nursing practice, including NLN Core Competencies of Nurse
Educators, AACN Essentials of
Baccalaureate and Master’s Education, NLN Educational
Competencies of Graduates of Associate, Bachelors and Master’s Degree
Programs,
ACEN Standards, QSEN Standards, Essentials of Baccalaureate Nursing
Education for
Entry Level Community/Public Health Nursing Practice, Core Competencies
for
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, and IOM Recommendations.
C. Module 1: Requirements of accrediting and regulations of state boards of
nursing
1. Patient outcomes databases, e.g. Core Measures, Patient Satisfaction Scores
2. Government Reports (PEW Commission; Healthy People)
3. Community services and resources
4. Political power in the community
D. Module 1: Internal Forces Influencing Curriculum Development
1. Mission and philosophy statements of academic and healthcare agencies
2. Financial and human resources of institutions and nursing department
providing
education programs
3. Organizational culture and climate
4. Programs and policies
5. Needs of learners enrolled in educational programs
6. Credentials of faculty
II. Research and Theory in Curriculum Development
A. Module 2: Curricular Designs and Patterns in Nursing Education
1. Types of Programs
2. Curricula Designs (Integrated and Blocking)
3. Organizing Frameworks (e.g., application of nursing theories and theories from
other
disciplines)
4. Community based curricula
5. Caring curriculum
6. Systems theory
7. Constructivist theory
B. Module 3: Curricular Models
1. Traditional and contemporary
2. Competency-based education
3. Narrative pedagogy
4. Web-based Education
C. Evidenced-based Education Practice
1. Mandatory requirements in staff development and continuing education
programs
III. Modules 4: Developing a Curriculum
A. Key Components of a Curriculum or Educational Program
1. Setting where education takes place
2. Philosophy and mission statements
3. Overall purpose and or goal of program or educational offering
4. Organizing and unifying frameworks
5. End of program outcomes
6. Courses to be offered
7. Writing a philosophy based on the metaparadigm of nursing and beliefs about
nursing
education (role of student, role of educator)
8. Identifying a unifying organizing framework
9. Developing measurable program outcomes
10. Behavioral objectives
11. Outcomes and alignment of outcomes
12. Critical Thinking Skills
13. Identifying courses and sequencing of courses to be included in curriculum
14. Developing an evaluation plan that includes measurement of attainment of
program
outcomes
B. Module 5: Course Development
1. Developing a Comprehensive Course or Educational Program Syllabus
2. Identifying course objectives, outcomes, and competencies
3. Writing a course or topical outline of learning experience
4. Identifying teaching and learning activities (need to match learning modalities
with
desired educational outcomes).
5. Measures to evaluate the attainment of course outcomes
6. Selecting textbook(s), journal reading(s), and website(s) to foster student
learning
7. Developing a unit of instructions, based on curriculum design.
IV. Curriculum Evaluation Process
A. Module 6: Purpose and evaluation Planning
1. Purpose of internal program curriculum evaluation
2. Purpose for external program evaluation include
3. Selection of an Evaluation Model
4. Creation of an Evaluation Framework
5. Curriculum Evaluation Process
6. Curriculum monitoring
7. Formative feedback-including ongoing data gathering, analysis and
interpretation of
curriculum as it is being implemented.
8. Summative evaluation-formative feedback may become part of summative
evaluation
V. Module 7: Planning for Technology in Curriculum and Course Development
A. Implications of Technology in Education
1. e-learning
2. Mobile Learning
3. Distance Learning
4. Education Competence
5. Student Engagement
B. Teaching and Learning with Technology
1. Simulation
2. Informatics
3. Learning Platforms
4. Flipped Classrooms
5. Educational Technologies

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