TY - GEN
T1 - Bottom-up curriculum innovation through grants for lecturers
AU - Ossevoort, Miriam
AU - Inklaar, Robert
AU - Riezebos, Jan
N1 - Funding Information:
The curriculum innovation procedure took place at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. FEB’s educational portfolio consists of four broad bachelor’s degree programs, twelve specialized master’s degree programs, and one research master program. Yearly, the total number of students is around 8000. In FEB’s Strategic Plan 2021-2026, the faculty board has formulated ambitions for improving and renewing what and how we teach. They want to implement or strengthen the following educational themes in the degree programs: (1) internationalization, diversity & inclusion (ID&I), (2) ethics, responsibility & sustainability (ERS), (3) digital business & data science (DB&DS), (4) employability, and (5) active & blended learning. A projectteam of academic staff and educationalists was installed to manage this project. The project is financed by funds from the government. The outline of the project was communicated to all staff. For each degree program a curriculum working group (CWG) consisting of the program management and lecturers of that program, was installed to innovate the curriculum of their degree program and implement the above-mentioned themes according to the model described by Wolf (2007). Besides this top-down approach, bottom-up individual lectures could apply for a teaching grant if they wanted to innovate their course.
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The aim of this case study is to evaluate the bottom-up approach of curriculum innovation in higher education through the implementation of Teaching Innovation Grants (TIGs). Through the TIGs, lecturers were granted hours to innovate their course. Of the 81 applications, 52 were granted. The TIGs were implemented in BSc and MSc courses on topics in economics and business. Each grant touched upon one or more of the educational themes - (1) internationalization, diversity & inclusion, (2) ethics, responsibility & sustainability, (3) digital business & data science, (4) employability, and (5) active & blended learning - the faculty board has formulated as ambitions for improving and renewing what and how we teach in our degree programs. Overall, the TIGs has facilitated lecturers in innovating their teaching. They perceived the workload as manageable, but intensive. Support by teaching assistants and/or educationalist was an important factor for a successful implementation.
AB - The aim of this case study is to evaluate the bottom-up approach of curriculum innovation in higher education through the implementation of Teaching Innovation Grants (TIGs). Through the TIGs, lecturers were granted hours to innovate their course. Of the 81 applications, 52 were granted. The TIGs were implemented in BSc and MSc courses on topics in economics and business. Each grant touched upon one or more of the educational themes - (1) internationalization, diversity & inclusion, (2) ethics, responsibility & sustainability, (3) digital business & data science, (4) employability, and (5) active & blended learning - the faculty board has formulated as ambitions for improving and renewing what and how we teach in our degree programs. Overall, the TIGs has facilitated lecturers in innovating their teaching. They perceived the workload as manageable, but intensive. Support by teaching assistants and/or educationalist was an important factor for a successful implementation.
KW - bottom-up approach
KW - Curriculum innovation
KW - higher education
KW - teaching grants
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85173941038&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4995/HEAd23.2023.16209
DO - 10.4995/HEAd23.2023.16209
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85173941038
T3 - International Conference on Higher Education Advances
SP - 1131
EP - 1138
BT - HEAd 2023 - 9th International Conference on Higher Education Advances
PB - Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
T2 - 9th International Conference on Higher Education Advances, HEAd 2023
Y2 - 19 June 2023 through 22 June 2023
ER -