Northcentral University

School UPDATES Yulia Watters, PhD Curriculum Director, SSBS Happy New Year 2022! The New Year brings a lot of changes in curriculum development that started already in the previous year when NEP became part of the University under the lead of the Office of Strategy and Innovation (OSI) headed by Dr. Michelle Weise and Dr. Sasha Thackaberry. The OSI proposed subsequent changes to the course development model that we already started implementing during the development of the new curriculum in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program. Here are the few changes that would be helpful to understand: • The new template for the course development will take 16 weeks from start to finish. • The development will start with a kickoff meeting attended by the Subject Matter Expert (SME), the Learning Experience Designer (LXD) (former Instructional Designer), and a school representative along with an Instructional Librarian. • The SME and LXD will meet weekly to check on the progress. • Each course will have 4 modules (former sections). Each module will have a module introduction, module learning outcomes, and the module wrap up. • The SME and the team will be working on a live GoogleDoc to minimize the documents' exchange via email. This will prevent a confusion that sometimes occurred with multiple versions of the same document. • The course is built in the Learning Management System (LMS) as it is being developed by the SME. For example, once the first module is designed by the SME, it is built by the LXD while the SME is working on a second module. • A School Representative will review and provide comments in the Google doc three times during the development process (after the first module is completed, after the third module is completed, after the whole course is completed). • The course development will follow a 4 cycles model. Each cycle will last 16 weeks. • The number of courses developed each month will address the Institutional needs.

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