Program-Level Curriculum Events

Determining the right blend of in-person, online, hybrid, or hyflex courses is crucial for dynamic degree programs. Balancing delivery choices against expanding enrollment and technological change requires thoughtful, evidence-backed curriculum decisions. Join colleagues from across campus to analyze real-world delivery models and share lessons learned from your own unit.

Your participation in this collaborative session will directly shape an upcoming CTL guidance resource, helping academic units align course modalities, assessment strategies, and student engagement across diverse learning environments.

What to Bring: Examples of delivery mode challenges, course modalities, or curriculum plans currently under consideration in your department.

Session Goals
The goals of this session are to examine evidence and envision potential solutions:

• Evaluate pedagogical evidence and tradeoffs among in-person, online (synchronous, asynchronous, or bichronous), hybrid, and hyflex delivery modes to make strategic program-level decisions.
• Develop tools that align instructional design, assessment methods, and learning activities with specific delivery modes to maintain quality amid growing class sizes.
• Envision frameworks that support departmental instructors in adapting their course formats effectively and consistently. 

Stepping into curriculum leadership comes with big questions: How do you align academic program goals with strategic mandates, navigate governance, and respond to rapid educational and technological shifts without getting bogged down?

This interactive orientation grounds your team in the essential foundations and support available for academic program design. Working alongside CTL advisors and Programs Office experts, you will demystify institutional review pathways, discover available development resources, and map out a realistic, step-by-step strategy to guide your program’s renewal or launch with confidence.

What to Bring: Questions about your current committee work, draft program vision, or specific curriculum challenges.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Identify and access key institutional resources, support networks, and processes to advance program-level curriculum review, renewal, and development.
• Plan the integration of institutional commitments including Indigenous, student experience, and community-centered strategic plans into your academic program design.
• Prepare to adapt program-level curriculum to respond proactively to complex challenges such as GenAI, evolving student needs, and varied instructional delivery modes.

Clear Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) give students a transparent roadmap and help instructors build intentional, scaffolded courses aligned with the program curriculum. Yet, translating broad disciplinary goals into actionable outcome statements often feels abstract or overly technical.

This introductory workshop offers a straightforward, step-by-step approach to PLO design. Using practical verb matrix frameworks that connect cognitive rigor with real-world application, you will draft meaningful outcomes that reflect your discipline’s core values while laying a solid foundation for future course mapping and program review.

What to Bring: Existing program descriptions, draft learning outcomes, or specific questions from your department's curriculum discussions.

Next Step: On November 26, the Program Learning Outcomes 2: Refinement workshop offers collegial feedback to polish your draft PLOs and advance your curriculum process. Register below.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Construct or refine clear, scaffolded Program Learning Outcomes using practical taxonomy tools that balance foundational knowledge with real-world skills.
• Align program-level learning outcomes with course offerings and institutional strategic plans to create a coherent curriculum.
• Consider constructive, step-by-step strategies to lead collaborative PLO development conversations within your academic program.

Does your degree program offer a seamless progression, or are students encountering hidden learning gaps and unexpected course overlaps? Curriculum mapping provides a clear visual lens to ensure individual courses connect meaningfully across a full credential.

In this practical workshop, you will explore flexible mapping frameworks tailored to your field’s unique structure. You will learn how to audit core pathways, identify key learning benchmarks, and gather actionable tools to lead constructive mapping conversations with your department’s faculty and instructors.

What to Bring: Existing course lists, program learning outcomes, or current curriculum maps from your department.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

•  Select mapping frameworks and scales (for example, Intro/Develop/Advanced models or inquiry-based scales) that best reflect your discipline’s teaching structure.
• Analyze how program learning outcomes are scaffolded across courses to ensure balanced, intentional learning progression for students.
• Apply practical, collaborative strategies to lead constructive curriculum mapping discussions with departmental colleagues.

Ready to take your draft outcomes from rough concept to final polish? Translating initial ideas into precise, publishable Program Learning Outcomes requires dedicated focus, fresh perspectives, and constructive critique.

This feedback studio offers a collaborative space to refine your draft PLOs alongside CTL specialists and cross-disciplinary peers. Working in structured feedback triads, you will test outcome language for clarity, integrate university strategic priorities such as Indigenous perspectives and GenAI considerations, and ensure your final outcomes meet institutional quality assurance standards.

What to Bring: Draft Program Learning Outcomes.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

•  Refine draft PLOs through structured peer feedback triads to ensure language is precise, measurable, and tailored to your discipline.
• Integrate institutional strategic priorities such as Indigenous knowledges, student experience, and GenAI considerations directly into core learning goals.
• Align outcomes with quality standards to establish a solid foundation for course mapping and departmental implementation.