web-based and traditional curriculum by Nina Bitskinashvili

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Traditional Curriculum
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• Web-based Curriculum

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What is curriculum?
There are many definitions that are correct.
but for our purposes I define curriculum as
WHAT is taught to students.
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How Do We Define Curriculum?

• Curriculum is that which is taught at school.
• Curriculum is a set of subjects.
• Curriculum is content.
• Curriculum is a sequence of courses.
• Curriculum is a set of performance objectives.

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Which are old curriculum

• Subject Centered curriculum
• Board field curriculum
• Conservative core curriculum

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Which are modern curriculum

• The child centered curriculum
• Activity and experience centered curriculum
• Community centered curriculum
• Progressive curriculum
• Problem-oriented curriculum

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The newest one, WEB-BASED Curriculum

• Emphasize design and creativity
• Laboratory experience
• Industry-standard modern tools
• More ICT tools and materials

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Traditional Curriculum Development
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Contents

• Step 1 Problem Identification and General Needs
  Assessment
• Step 2 Needs Assessment for Targeted Learners
• Step 3 Goals and Objectives
• Step 4 Educational Strategies
• Step 5 Implementation
• Step 6 Evaluation and Feedback

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Curriculum for the World Wide Web
Five basic phases

• planning
• research
• development
• refinement
• Implementation
• These five areas work as organizational
  frameworks for instruction and
• learning, curriculum development and
  implementation, student progress
• and presentation.

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Benefits of Web-based curriculum

• There are seven important functionalities
  
• in web-based education
• (1) real time announcements,
• (2) posting of text, html, spreadsheets, videos,
  PowerPoint, audio files,
• (3) real time grade book,
• (4) external links,
• (5) discussion board and chat rooms,
• (6) automated quizzes,
• (7) emails to individuals and list serves.

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CMS GoalsWeb-based curriculum management system
(CMS).

• Maintain consistency of data
• Link courses to programs systematically
• Streamline process from beginning to publication
• Show curriculum review process

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Academic Dishonesty

• Cheating
• Plagiarism
• Self-plagiarism
• Unpermitted collaboration
• Inappropriate help
• Misrepresentation

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Necessity of Web-based curriculum

• A students success in todays world requires not
• only basic academic skills but also social and
• collaboration skills, higher order and critical
  thinking
• skills, problem solving skills, fluency in
• communicating in many modes and media,
• technical skills and the skill to initiate action
  
• (Fulton Honey, 2002).

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Positive aspects of E-learning

• anywhere, any time, any place (Honey, 2001)
• Technologically trained personnel

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Benefits

• Within instructor decided limits, the student now
  picks the place and time to learn.
• The student can look at the lecture not once but
  see it as many times as the student wishes.
• Web-based education permits the professor to
  introduce the student to a much richer variety of
  text, external links, audios, and videos to the
  virtual classroom.

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Critics

• Criticism One.
• The academy has not prepared professors to
  teach online classes (Speck, 2000 75).
• Criticism Two.
• Web-based education is biased against liberal
  learning that requires a give and take
  communication between and among students and the
  teacher (Carsten and Worsfold, 2000 83).

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Criticism

• Criticism Three.
• The online approach eliminates the value of
  personal relationships in the name of efficiency
  (Carsten and Worsfold, 2000 84).
• Criticism Four.
• The online approach merely eliminates a
  students literacy because of the over reliance
  on visual culture (videos, audios, automated
  quizzes, and so on).

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• In summary, teachers can abuse both web-based
  education and traditional education but both can
  also provide the necessary quality rigorous
  education.

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Web-based education is a reality but it is also a
changing reality