Module title: Nursing Education and Curriculum Development

Module code: Nurs 3033

ECTS: 3
Module Duration:
Module description: This module is designed for undergraduate nursing students to equip the
required knowledge, attitude and skill on planning and facilitating teaching, designing and
developing instructional materials including nursing curriculum that enable students to
effectively participate and contribute in curriculum development, teaching-learning process
quality improvement of nursing education .
General objective: At the end of this module, the students will be able to effectively design,
develop, facilitate and monitor teaching - learning experience in nursing professions

Learning outcomes

 Analyze the different theories of learning and its implication in teaching learning
process
 Analyze the different educational philosophies and their implication in curriculum
design
 Identify effective teaching –learning approach in the perspective of the different
educational philosophies and learning theories
 Identify challenges in nursing professional educations and provide suggestion for
improvement
 Evaluate the content and the different components of existing nursing curriculum and
provide suggestion for improvement
 Effectively plan for facilitating teaching in various settings
  Facilitate learning using a variety of learning methods and activities
 Assess the progress of learning and making judgment to increase student's learning and
development
 Conduct educational quality assessment using standards
 Identify performance gaps , analyze the cause of performance gaps and select
appropriate intervention to fix the existing gaps /problem

Teaching –learning methods and activities

 Interactive lecture
 Demonstration
 Guided practice
 Facilitated group discussion
 Project work
 Peer learning
Learning assessment methods

 Direct observation of performance

 Written test (MCQ, Essay, …)
 Review of task( project, assignment, report,…) completed by students
 Oral questioning
 Peer assessment

Module schedule

 Lecture , discussion and other learning activities = 24hr/ week

Week /Day Learning Activities Required

Reading
 Interactive lecture and discussion ( 4hrs) Reflective
Foundation of Health professional education Portfolio31
 Definition of terms (,education, Teaching,
instruction, training …)
1  Health professional education: past experience and
future possibilities
 Learning (meaning)
How do people learn ?
Theories of learning
Behavioral learning theory
Constructivism learning theory
 Traditional teaching-learning method
 How learning become more effective
 Principles to guide educational/teaching practice
 Challenges of health professional educations
Activity:
 Students identify different engagement teaching –
learning activities using ICPA framework
Interactive lecture and discussion (4 hrs) Reflective
 Curriculum design , development, implementation and Portfolio
evaluation
-Curriculum concept/ different definitions of curriculm
2  Educational philosophy underpin curricula choices and
decisions on curricular models
-The conservative view
-The progressive view
-Modernism and post modernism
 Curriculum models
 Principle of curricula design and development

 Curriculum development process (Basic steps/components

in curriculum development process

Activity (Guided practice)

 Critical evaluation /review of components of existing nursing
curriculum and recommend suggestion for improvement

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Students are required to maintain in their portfolio learning experiences, learning outcomes achieved, evidence of learning and reflections
longitudinally and their mentors would provide feedback occasionally. Clinical instructors should also ask students to submit reflective portfolio
twice during the attachment for formative assessment and feedback
3 Interactive lecture and discussion (4 hrs) Interactive
 Plan and prepare for teaching lecture and
 Plan and prepare for teaching/facilitation discussion
 Writing learning objectives/learning outcomes ( 4 hrs)
 Analyzing and selecting essential contents
 Selecting learning methods and activities
 Selecting learning materials and resource
 Select learning assessment methods
Developing session plan
Project 1
 Preparing session plan
4-6 Interactive lecture and discussion ( 4 hrs)
 Facilitate teaching
 Basic facilitation skills
 Delivering interactive presentation
 Facilitating skill development (Demonstration and
coaching)
 Facilitating role play
 Facilitating case study
 Facilitating group discussion
 Facilitating clinical simulation
 Facilitating PBL
 Providing Feedback
Activity : Plan and prepare to facilitate teaching

Project 2
 Practice facilitation of
 Interactive presentation
 Demonstration and coaching
 Role play
 Case study
 Group discussion
 Clinical simulation
 PBL
Interactive lecture and discussion
7-8  Assessment of student performance
 Principle of assessment
Formativive –summative assement
Validity and reliability
Designing an assessmsnt –test blueprinting
 Developing Knowledge assessment (formats /methods ,
selection)
Developing Performance assessment (formats and selection)

Activity : Critique knowledge assessment

Project 3 : Develop written and performance test based on
blueprinting
Educational quality assurance and improvement standards
9-10
Activity : Group discussion on educational standards and tools
hrs)
Project 4
 Conduct educational quality assessment using standards,
 Identify performance gaps , analyze the cause of
performance gaps and select appropriate intervention to fix
the existing gaps /problem
 Writing report
11 Exam weeks