Web-based Curriculum

&Traditional Curriculum

&Traditional Curriculum

Nina Bitskinashvili (2014)

WHAT is taught to students.

What is curriculum?

There are many definitions that are correct………….

but for our purposes I define curriculum as :

Nina Bitskinashvili (2014)

How Do We Define Curriculum?

Curriculum is that which is taught at school.

Curriculum is a set of subjects. Curriculum is content. Curriculum is a sequence of courses. Curriculum is a set of performance

objectives.

Nina Bitskinashvili (2014)

Which are old curriculum…

Subject Centered curriculum

Board field curriculum

Conservative core curriculum

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Which are modern curriculum

The child centered curriculum

Activity and experience centered curriculum

Community centered curriculum

Progressive curriculum

Problem-oriented curriculum

The newest one, WEB-BASED Curriculum

Emphasize design and creativity

Laboratory experience

Industry-standard modern tools

More ICT tools and materials

Traditional Curriculum Development

Contents

Step 1 Problem Identification and General Needs

Assessment

Step 2 Needs Assessment for Targeted Learners

Step 3 Goals and Objectives

Step 4 Educational Strategies

Step 5 Implementation

Step 6 Evaluation and Feedback

Curriculum for the

World W

ide Web

planning research development refinement Implementation

These five areas work as organizational frameworks for instruction and

learning, curriculum development and implementation, student progress

and presentation.

Five basic phases

Benefits of Web-based curriculum

There are seven important functionalities

in web-based education: (1) real time announcements,

(2) posting of text, html, spreadsheets, videos, PowerPoint, audio files,

(3) real time grade book,

(4) external links,

(5) discussion board and chat rooms,

(6) automated quizzes,

(7) emails to individuals and list serves.

CMS Goals

Web-based curriculum management system

(CMS).

Maintain consistency of data

Link courses to programs systematically

Streamline process from beginning to publication

Show curriculum review process

Academic Dishonesty

Cheating

Plagiarism

Self-plagiarism

Unpermitted collaboration

Inappropriate help

Misrepresentation

Necessity of Web-based curriculum

A student’s success in today’s world requires not

only basic academic skills but also social and

collaboration skills, higher order and critical thinking

skills, problem solving skills, fluency in

communicating in many modes and media,

technical skills and the skill to initiate action

(Fulton & Honey, 2002).

Positive aspects of E-learning

“anywhere, any time, any place” (Honey, 2001)

Technologically trained personnel…

Benefits

• Within instructor decided limits, the student now picks the place and time to learn.

• The student can look at the lecture not once

but see it as many times as the student wishes.

• Web-based education permits the professor to introduce the student to a much richer variety of text, external links, audios, and videos to the virtual classroom.

Critics

Criticism One.

The academy has not prepared professors to teach online classes (Speck, 2000: 75).

Criticism Two.

Web-based education is biased against liberal learning that requires a give and take communication between and among students and the teacher (Carsten and Worsfold, 2000: 83).

Criticism

Criticism Three.

The online approach eliminates the value of personal relationships in the name of efficiency (Carsten and Worsfold, 2000: 84).

Criticism Four.

The online approach merely eliminates a student’s literacy because of the over reliance on visual culture (videos, audios, automated quizzes, and so on).

In summary, teachers can abuse both web-based education and traditional education but both can also provide the necessary quality rigorous education….

Web-based education is a reality but it is also a changing reality…