Strategies for Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to CDIO reform

Abstract

This paper examines resistance toward CDIO curriculum reform and attempts to identify strategies to prevent and deal with resistance within the institution: related to faculty, students, administrators, procedures, rules, traditions etc.

Examples will be given from three institutions, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), University of Liverpool and Singapore Polytechnic. The following themes shall govern the study because they are the inherent differences from which the three institutions resonate: 

  • Leadership culture
  • Curriculum Structure
  • Faculty Autonomy
  • Reform Support/training
  • Level of Implementation

​Specifically, the paper contains recommendations and strategies for possible solutions to barriers to curriculum innovation efforts. The impact of curriculum reform efforts within the three institutions substantiates the strategies that are suggested in this paper. The purpose is to inform and assist faculty who are planning for CDIO reform and encourage them to take the lead to ensure innovation success

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