Curriculum Design — CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION

Curriculum is the sum total of all the experiences, which have been planned, which the students or learners will engage in to achieve their learning goals.

Which one of these is NOT an aspect of the curriculum content:

Which one of these is NOT one of the six elements which combine together to form the curriculum:

A “workshop” is typically referring to a shorter experience, such as a 3-4 day learning event.

Learning outcomes should describe what you will be able to do at the end of a course:

Who said “Knowledge is experience, everything else is just information”.

Traditional methods of learning tend to focus on content, whereas more effective methods to help adults learn need to focus more on process.

Who said: “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn”.

What insect did Robert the Bruce study to understand the learning cycle?

Receiving positive feedback, whether from the teacher or from others, is a critically important element in effective learning.

Which one of these is NOT one of the five factors of effective learning:

The five factors of effective learning is a learning circle, where the learner begins with wanting or needing to learn, then continues by some activity (doing), then by digesting and finally by getting feedback.

If people are exposed to an idea on a single occasion, at the end of 30 days they retain less than 10%. However, if they are exposed to the idea at six different times over 30 days, they retain more than 90%.

When you are describing the learners of your course you should:

The “purpose” or the “big idea” is what you want the course or workshop to be about. 

The main themes for your course have nothing to do with your “Statement of Purpose”.

Learning outcomes are important, because they help us as curriculum designers and teachers to focus precisely on what we want our learners to achieve.

Learning outcomes should be:

Which one of these is NOT part of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Outcomes.

It is important that your Main Themes and the Learning Outcomes inform the Outline for the Course or Workshop.

Case Studies are descriptions of a real life experience, which are used to help learners think through issues or general principles through being involved in a situation as similar to real life as possible.

The ideal length of any course is 4 to 5 days.

Additional materials you can deliver with your course might include:

It is important to build your course in a way, which other people can also use to facilitate if, for some reason you are not available.

What is maximum amount of time a facilitator should be presenting content before getting the students to DO something.