Curriculum Mapping Across the Disciplines: Differences, Approaches, and Strategies

Curriculum Mapping Across the Disciplines: Differences, Approaches, and Strategies

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Curriculum mapping can be used to document, align, visualize, and assess curricular data, such as learning outcomes, assessment materials, instructional techniques, and student pre- and post-testing scores.A cross-disciplinary Curriculum Mapping Initiative currently underway at the University of Toronto Mississauga aims to: (1) develop guidelines for the curriculum mapping process; (2) develop cross-disciplinary curriculum mapping templates and samples to guide departments through the curriculum mapping process; (3) communicate narratives for how to use curriculum mapping to inform curricular change; (4) develop visualization strategies for curricular data; (5) emtek 2113 initiate a plan for dissemination and sustainability; and (6) initiate a plan for informing students about how to use curricular maps in their academic experiences.Through this curriculum mapping initiative, we have discovered that discipline-specific differences exist in approaches to curriculum mapping.The purpose of this paper is to communicate these cross-disciplinary similarities and differences in purpose, process, and utilization of curriculum awid sr-2400 mapping strategies.

We found that different departments had some common ground in the curriculum mapping process, but also key differences.The differences could be categorized according to: purpose for initiating the curriculum mapping process; approach to curriculum mapping; dissemination of completed maps; dealing with pedagogical jargon; and faculty buy-in.