UNF Office of Faculty Enhancement The University of North Florida's faculty development unit has concisely compiled essential information on the assessment of teaching and learning, with links to further details. Major topics include typologies of modes of assessment, summative and formative assessment of teaching, summative and formative assessment of learning, and advice on assembling a teaching portfolio.
 
Step by Step: Planning a College Course They are ideas taken from a P. Ryan and G. Marten's, Planning
 a College Course, published by The National Center for Research to Improve Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989.

Developing a Presentation In 4 Easy Steps From Presenters Online, this attractive site focuses the presentation to four points: background, content and visuals, and final preparation.

Concept Mapping  Concept mapping is a technique for representing knowledge in graphs. The development of curriculum can logically progress from this visual representation. This site is an excellent overview of how this translate into practice.

Curriculum Design Template Available as a PDF, this template removes some of the mystique involved in creating curriculum. This is a very user friendly site, and highly recommended.

Integrated Curriculum Design Packet  An award winning site that is complete and extensive. It follows the curriculum process through, beginning with curriculum mapping, then proceeding through to core applications, essential questions, project development, assessment, and reflection.

Curriculum Design Tools Created by Learnweb at Havard, you'll find a variety of helpful resources for working with  the Teaching for Understanding model and subsequent curriculum development.

Critical Thinking Curriculum Model  Brought to us by Los Alamos National Laboratory, The Critical Thinking Curriculum Model (CTCM) is a multidisciplinary approach designed to encompass computer technology, a current real world issue, and effective learning and teaching practices. As a project based curriculum, it encompasses the political, social/cultural, economic, and scientific realms in the context of a global issue.

Benchmark Standards  The Benchmark Statements of the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) represent suggested standards that should be common to all Bachelors' degrees within the given subject areas as across the UK. Statements exist for 22 subjects, and each represents an interesting reference point for anyone concerned with curriculum or degree design, despite the UK focus of these documents. All are available here in PDF format, or can be ordered free from the QAA. [July 2002]

Web-Based Curriculum Design  A Resource-based curriculum model that includes new creative uses of  systems  that can  be implemented under a Resource-Based Curriculum Model. These include flexibility, instructors as facilitators, learner-centered, and based on a contructivist approach to education.
 

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