Developing the Credit-Based Modular Curriculum in Higher Education: Challenge, Choice and Change

by Mick Betts, Robin Smith

Overview

This text provides guidance for building curriculum structures and examines the models that can be used. Options such as accreditation of prior and experiential learning, incompany accreditation, work-based learning,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138419971
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/28/2017
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Betts, Mick; Smith, Robin

Table of Contents

Part 1 The universal curriculum: Patterns of provision; contained provision; Boundaried Provision;Combined Model; Negotiated Provision; Organised flexibility fields and sets; modules and credit module; size module; volume module; levels module; learning outcomes; module assessment. Part 2 Development and implementation: Standards and assessment; examination boards; the nature of assessment; degree classification; capitalizing on Flexibility; Negotiated Programmes; Work-Based Learning; The accreditation of prior and experiential learning definitions - AOIMP and APEL; building confidence in APEL; issues of management and control; issues of the relevance of prior learning; the shelf-life of prior learning - issues of currency credit contributing to more than one award - changing mindsets; how much APEL?; integrating prior and new learning issues with grades, levels and volume; issues of costing and charging; issues for full-time students; quality matters; programme validation; individual student validation monitoring; managing and resourcing; CBMS Information Technology; resourcing and planning higher education in the learning society - issues for credit-based modular systems.

Editorial Reviews

Educators from Anglia Polytechnic University introduce the concept of genuinely credit-based modular systems to readers not familiar with the debate, and examine the dilemmas surrounding them including those related to the accreditation of prior and experiential learning, in- company accreditation, work-based learning, negotiated awards, and related flexible approaches. They say neither supporters and opponents of the approach have addressed the underlying dilemma of grafting a flexible structure onto a curriculum philosophy based on traditional British education. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

Booknews

'This book is written in a concise, clear and accessible style ... there is a lot of CBMS terminology that is fully explained and effectively illustrated by examples and case studies ... a useful addition to the literature on credit-based higher education. - British Educational Research Journal

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