Designing a Curriculum Village

Learning Programs

lead participants

down a path of discovery

Graduate ‘Portfolio Learner’ Experience

Essential Skills

Employability Skills

Service Learning

Applied Learning

Collaborative Learning

Global Awareness

Entrepreneurial Awareness

Environmental Stewardship

Diversity and Inclusiveness

Citizenship

Teamwork & Collaboration

Professional Conduct &

Ethics

Leadership

Life-long Learning

Occupational Readiness

ProgramProfile

Pathways

Employment Opportunities

Look at One Program

Create a Map Legend for Each Program Component

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influencers:

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Commissions,

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Let’s look at this Program a bit differently...

What if we looked through the lens of a learner?

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Business Administration – Accounting

What does the journey look like now?

Re-visualization of the Curriculum

Map

1. For whom is this program designed? The learner?

Industry? The Community? The College?

2. How does the Curriculum reflect the Portfolio

Learner Profile?

3. What if we took it a step further? What would this

program look like for a community of learners?

4. What if we designed this program as a learning

village? What might that look like?

The Learning Village Program MapApplication of a Village Concept to the Same Program

What does the word ‘village’ mean to you?

What makes a village thrive?

How is a village structured? Is it linear? No.

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The Learning Village Program MapApplication of a Village Concept to the Same Program

The Learning Commons is the Village Centre

Program Curriculum is an evolving entity that grows...

• Program Design and Development

• Program Delivery

• Program Reflection

• Program Renewal

Village is an evolving entity that grows...

• Asset Mapping

• Revitalization

• Education for Sustainable Development

• Citizenry, Engagement

Activity for you…

Identify the village components in your Program Map.

Learning Programs incorporate village-design

principles:

• welcoming and fostering sense of community;

• accommodating anyone regardless of background;

• providing opportunities to learn, mentor, share,

celebrate and grow;

• creating life-long learners through portfolio

experience.

Villages foster Creativity and Learning

In The Great Work*, author Thomas Berry suggests that it is

the design of the environment that will determine if creativity is

fostered or suppressed.

• If the environment is too harsh or rigid, creativity is lost.

• If the environment is too wild, creativity is lost.

Each individual brings with them their own strengths, discipline

and wildness. The strength of the village is its ability to accept

learners into a community where they can determine for

themselves what works for them, on a personal journey that is

neither too disciplined nor too wild.

*The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (1999), Bell Tower/Random House, NY, ISBN 0-609-80499-5