Curriculum and IQAP Support

Curriculum development is an ongoing process of planning, reviewing, and improving programs and courses to support effective teaching, student success, and program excellence. It is a continuous cycle of planning and enhancement that may occur through the cyclical Institutional Quality Assurance Process (IQAP) or as part of continuous improvement initiatives.

 

What We Do

The Centre for Teaching and Learning assists in curriculum development, review, and renewal processes that are faculty-driven, student-focused, collaborative, evidence-based, and meaningful to the needs of the department.

We provide consults and support on a variety of topics including:

  • initial stages of program planning
  • articulating program learning outcomes
  • strategies for gathering evidence of student achievement
  • design of both face-to-face and online courses
  • development of new online or blended programs
  • relevant examples of curriculum materials (e.g., outcomes, rubrics, curriculum maps, etc.); and
  • curriculum renewal and innovation
  • development of curriculum maps

 

Resources

The following resources may be helpful, depending on whether you are interested in improving your curriculum at the program or course level.

If you are creating a new program or completing an IQAP self-study for a previously established program:

Institutional Quality Assurance Process (IQAP) - Academic Program Review

 

If you are looking to improve your current program curriculum through innovations or modifications including Decolonization, outside of an IQAP self-study:

Continuous Curriculum Improvement

 

If you are looking to improve a specific course or courses within your program:

Course Design

 

Contact Us

For questions and queries related to curriculum processes, please contact us at: curriculum@uwo.ca

The guidelines provided here are our ideal timelines for individual curriculum requests. Our ability to accommodate requests within this timeframe may be impacted by the time of year. Our ability to accommodate requests for meetings is limited in August, early September and in May, due to the high volume of new faculty and TA programs during these months.

 

2-5 days
102 weeks
1-2 weeks
2-3 months