Curriculum vs Course content

I've recently switched from industry to teach at a post secondary institution.

My role is to design a new 2-year program in a specific industry. It's pretty niche so there isn't much out there and no textbook specifically designed for the course.

Working in this type of role is very new to me and for the past 6 months I've been working with the curriculum team but I am still SO confused about where the line is between curriculum and course content.

I've been following the process and writing content and bringing in industry experts where needed but feel like I'm stifling instructor creativity and flexibility.

For my courses we need to do the following for curriculum:

Complete curriculum map Design learning activities Design assessments Write course content to meet SLOs and GLOs for face to face and online.

The first item I get but the rest feels so prescriptive (although I get assessments to some degree) and leaves little room for instructors to make it their own. If the instructor changes the content and learning activities, that feels like a huge waste of resources too.

Where's the line between curriculum and creating content? Is there one? Am I missing something? What is the process at your institution? Also is it true that PowerPoint is not a valid curriculum format for content (in the sense that there is no text book and it would be a learning tool and not for teaching)?

Note: I've discussed with the curriculum team so many times but can never get a straight answer.

A very confused newbie to curriculum :)

Submitted August 10, 2021 at 05:16PM by esuhmg https://ift.tt/3xGJYim