Abstracts
Abstract
Universities often find it challenging to provide students with an effective and holistic view of their program and its disciplinary outcomes. To provide a transparent visualisation of the curriculum, a multi-dimensional and interactive curriculum map tool, MyCourseMap, was developed. This study utilises mixed methods to explore how prepared Australian universities are in providing explicit information on the curriculum to staff and students. Staff and students reported a lack of awareness of course learning outcomes and graduate attributes adding to the issue of students not fully comprehending how their degree is aligned with employment expectations. MyCourseMap served to help resolve these coherence and visualisation issues.
Keywords:
- Curriculum literacy,
- visible graduate attributes,
- curriculum mapping,
- mobile technology,
- first year,
- qualitative and quantitative analysis,
- curriculum visualisation tool
Résumé
Il est souvent difficile pour les universités de fournir aux étudiants une vision efficace et holistique de leur programme et de ses résultats disciplinaires. Pour donner une visualisation transparente du programme, un outil multidimensionnel et interactif de la cartographie du curriculum, MyCourseMap, a été développé. Cette étude utilise des méthodes mixtes pour explorer l'état de préparation des universités australiennes pour ce qui est de donner des informations implicites sur le programme au personnel et aux étudiants. Les étudiants et le personnel ont signalé une méconnaissance des résultats d'apprentissage des cours et des attributs des diplômés, ce qui augmente les difficultés des étudiants qui ne comprennent pas pleinement en quoi leur diplôme correspond aux attentes en matière d'emploi. L'outil MyCourseMap peut améliorer ces problèmes de cohérence et de visualisation.
Mots-clés :
- Littératie curriculaire,
- attributs visibles des diplômés,
- cartographie du curriculum,
- technologie mobile,
- première année,
- analyse qualitative et quantitative,
- outil de visualisation des programmes
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