Developing the Credit-based Modular Curriculum in Higher Education
Provides the information that many involved in higher education will need to help see them through post-Dearing curriculum development. The book describes some of the more common credit-based modular systems in practical language, for those institutions who wish to follow the CBMS path. Secondly it identifies the inherent problems that are created by CBMS approaches so that institutions can recognize, confront and overcome these dilemmas. The authors draw on their experience of developing and...
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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, Booknews 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)
List of FiguresAcknowledgments1Introduction1Pt. 1The Universal Curriculum132Patterns of Provision153Modules and Credit35Pt. 2Development and Implementation574Standards and Assessment595Capitalizing on Flexibility756The Accreditation of Prior and Experiential Learning877Quality Matters1038Managing and Resourcing CBMS1179Higher Education in the Learning Society: Issues for Credit-based Modular Systems129AppCase Studies in Credit-based Modular Systems139Undergraduate Negotiated Programmes141Postgraduate Negotiated Programmes148An Approach to AP(E)L152In-company Accreditation156Bibliography159Index161
\ BooknewsEducators 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)\ \
