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Managing curriculum development and enhancing quality

Proceedings article published in 2014 by Bela Markus, Hungary
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Abstract

The author aims to introduce some concepts and practical tools, which were usefully applied in the curriculum development influenced by the Bologna process and successfully used in the quality enhancement practice. The first part of the paper is dealing with the definition of education/training needs and involvement of stakeholders curriculum planning. One of the most important outcomes from these activities is the definition of skills and competences; and stakeholder management plan. The curriculum is a crucial component of any education/training activities, it is a road map to knowledge, and it builds knowledge topology. The implementation of new curricula often needs capacity building for faculty delivering education or training. Faculty of Geoinformatics (GEO) at University of West Hungary participated or managed in many relevant international projects. The author will share some good educational practices. The second part is focusing on curriculum and learning material development methods. The competency matrix will be introduced as a tool used to document and compare the required competencies for graduates. It is used in a gap analysis for determining where critical overlaps between courses are or which skills/competencies are not taught deeply enough. Quality is omnipresent, ubiquitous – like the cloud of computers. Understanding and evaluating the quality of education requires a comprehensive picture of the unique and complex characters of the system that produced them. The third part of the paper is dealing briefly with quality enhancement issues.