Abstract
Future-proof engineering curricula can cope with fast-changing circumstances, and the opportunities and threats these bring along in the context of the curriculum. Curriculum Agility (CA) is a concept aimed at helping higher education institutions analyse how responsive their programmes are to changes in society, industry, and student characteristics and needs. The CA model describes features needed to adapt curricular and organizational structures, learning content and outcomes, learning activities and pedagogies, staff development, and examination design in a timely and proactive manner. Based on the model, a CA Self-Mapping Protocol has been developed that aims to actively engage and simultaneously enable curriculum stakeholders in the self-mapping process. It was tested at five European universities and at different levels, i.e. university, department, and program level. Leading questions focused on the effects of the CA self-mapping process; and what that could mean for the set-up of the protocol. The aim of this paper is to present to what extent, and in which form, the self-mapping protocol, as a design-thinking, guided dialogue with multiple stakeholders, is valuable and feasible in different higher engineering education institutional contexts. All facilitators were able to adjust the protocol to local contexts. And although there were all kinds of differences (of use and process) between the institutes, what ‘stands firmly’ is the importance of the negotiating understanding of what CA is and what it means to the local context. The presence of the ten principles were instrumental to ‘guarantee’ that people were discussing and considering the themes that needed to be addressed.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 20th International CDIO Conference, hosted by Ecole Supérieure Privée d’Ingénierie et de Technologies (ESPRIT) Tunis, Tunisia, June 10 – June 13, 2024 |
Editors | Lamjed Bettaieb, Nadia Ajailia, Jens Bennedsen, Kristina Edström, Mark Nivan Singh, Reidar Lyng, Nicoleta Maynard, Johan Malmqvist, Fredrik Byström |
Place of Publication | Gothenburg |
Publisher | CDIO |
Pages | 608-619 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-91-88041-55-5 |
Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Keywords
- curriculum agility
- self-evaluation
- transformative curriculum change
- future-proof engineering education
- CDIO Standard 1
- CDIO Standard 2
- CDIO Standard 3
- CDIO Standard 4
- CDIO Standard 5
- CDIO Standard 6
- CDIO Standard 7
- CDIO Standard 9
- CDIO Standard 8
- CDIO Standard 10
- CDIO Standard 11
- CDIO Standard 12