Curriculum Development & Mapping

Course Code: IDL02

Program: Curriculum, Instructional Design & Digital Learning

Course Overview: Curriculum development ensures that learning is structured, progressive, and aligned with clear goals. Effective curricula connect program outcomes with courses, modules, lessons, teaching, and assessment.

This course equips educators with practical strategies to design curriculum frameworks, structure learning pathways, map outcomes across courses, and ensure progression and coherence. It also supports curriculum review, improvement, adaptation, and scalability.

Learning Outcomes

• Design structured curriculum frameworks
• Map learning outcomes across courses
• Create progressive learning pathways
• Align courses, modules, and lessons
• Ensure curriculum coherence and effectiveness

Target Audience: Curriculum developers, programme managers, educators, instructional designers, and academic leaders responsible for coherent learning pathways.

Learning Experience: Learners engage through video overviews, audio deep dives, study guides, practical examples, reflection prompts, workbook activities, applied tasks, knowledge checks, and end-of-module quizzes. Activities support programme-outcome design, curriculum frameworks, course mapping, progression, alignment, and curriculum review.

Course Structure: 5 modules / 16 lessons.

Special Feature: Every module concludes with a Putting It All Together audio deep dive that connects the key lessons and supports reflection and practical application.

Pathway Focus: Define programme outcomes. Map coherent pathways. Strengthen curriculum alignment.