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Curriculum Development & Design Center

Designs comprehensive educational programs and curricula for geoscience and energy engineering training, building competency-based and outcome-based (OBE) frameworks grounded in industry skills-gap analysis.

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Research Fields 19

📚 Curriculum Theory & Foundations

Curriculum theory and foundations is the field that asks what a curriculum is, what it is …

🗺️ Curriculum Development Model & Mapping

Curriculum development models are procedural frameworks that turn educational purposes int…

🎯 Competency-Based Curriculum

A competency-based curriculum organizes a program of study around explicitly defined compe…

🏁 Outcome-Based Education & Mastery Learning

Outcome-based education (OBE) is the design stance that a curriculum should be defined by …

🏗️ Instructional Systems Design

Instructional systems design (ISD) is the application of systems engineering to instructio…

🧠 Problem-Based Learning

Problem-based learning (PBL) is a curricular approach in which learning is organized aroun…

🔨 Project-Based & Design-Based Learning

Project-based learning organizes instruction around extended, artifact-producing projects:…

📁 Case-Based Learning

Case-based learning organizes instruction around detailed accounts of real or realistic si…

🏔️ Experiential & Field-Based Learning

Experiential and field-based learning is the family of approaches in which direct, purpose…

🤝 Work-Integrated Learning & Cooperative Education

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is the family of curricular designs that integrate authenti…

📡 Industry Skills-Gap Analysis & Needs Assessment

Skills-gap analysis and needs assessment is the diagnostic discipline that determines, wit…

🔬 STEM/Engineering Education Reform

STEM and engineering education reform is the program of structural change in science, tech…

🏛️ Engineering & Geoscience Education Accreditation

Engineering and geoscience education accreditation is the external quality assurance regim…

🧱 Modular Course Structure & Learning Pathways

Modular course structure is the organization of a curriculum into self-contained, independ…

🪪 Stackable Credentials & Andragogy

Andragogy is Malcolm Knowles's model of adult learning, introduced to American readers in …

🌍 Global & Critical/Culturally Responsive Curriculum

Global, critical and culturally responsive curriculum is the family of approaches that tre…

🛠️ Vocational & Technical Curriculum

Vocational and technical curriculum is the design discipline for education that prepares p…

🌈 Universal Design for Learning (Curriculum Accessibility)

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a curriculum-design framework that builds multiple …

🎮 Simulation-Based Curriculum & Serious Games

Simulation-based curriculum uses models of real systems and situations as its medium of in…