ABSTRACT
Curriculum and pedagogy are the instructional elements of education. When curriculum and pedagogy are combined with assessing performance, an instructional and learning paradigm is established. Curriculum content should determine pedagogy with success or failure being measured by assessment. This chapter describes how the different types of courses—general education, disciplinary core, major field of study, and minor field of study—impact what and how students are expected to learn. Online learning has grown rapidly, especially in private, for-profit universities that find this technology easier to implement, less costly, and more useful for their customers. For online learning to succeed, universities must offer well-designed degree programs with exceptional quality, high performance standards, and impeccable security. Redesigning curriculum and pedagogy forces universities to consider the needs of customers, including students, governments, and other third-party payers. Tenured faculty members and universities are key players in changing curriculum and pedagogy, but they need persuasion.
