Monday, January 25, 2016

Modularization: The Unknown Unknown


An ideal (a.k.a. radical) modular system has some important criteria. a. Curriculum and the relations to other educational programs: Restriction of learning content and/or qualifications, flexible combination of different modules; b. Curriculum and guide lines: Standardization of learning contents, qualifications, and methods of measuring learning outcome; c. Assessment: Output-orientation; d. Certification process: Certification of each unit; e. Participants: Unrestricted entrance and exit opportunities by participants; and f. Providers: Unrestricted option to offer all types of modules by all kinds of schools and training providers. [Pilz, M. (2002). Modularization in the Scottish Education System: A View from the Outside. Scottish Educational Review 34(2): 163–174.] Those Ethiopian higher education institutes implementing the modular programs can easily see the inadequacies of the programs in terms of these criteria.

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