Peer Review

Curriculum MAP: Demo for Instructors and Professionals in Higher Ed

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Reviewed:: Jan 20, 2026 by Faculty Development

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Overview:

The Curriculum MAP is an introduction to the campus based quality assurance program at the institution. The demo is intentioned to provide basic information on the program for UBC users on how to use the new site. Faculty members and campus administrators walk users through the initial creation of an account and each step in the process.

Type of Material:

Tutorial

Recommended Uses:

Possible uses:

• For introduction to the quality assurance program at the institution.

• A possible professional development on curriculum mapping and alignment.

• training for faculty on quality assurance program at this institution

• enhance collaboration with curriculum development within departments/colleges.

Technical Requirements:

Access to Internet, Used Chrome

Identify Major Learning Goals:

By the end of this session, attendees will have a good understanding of this tool and its applications in their own context.

• Additional session outcomes were stated in the video.

Target Student Population:

College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional

Instructors looking to ideate or evaluate a course from a backward design and constructive alignment perspective
Program coordinators/leads looking to ideate/evaluate a program based on curriculum mapping
Quality-assurance practitioners looking to support instructors/faculty members with curriculum mapping for evaluation or analysis
Teaching and learning professionals looking to support their teams through the use of technology

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

knowledge of instructional design principles and guidelines

• Faculty will need additional background information on the topics to be covered, either through more resource links or previous professional development.

• Availability of current courses and program needs would also benefit the learner.

Content Quality

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Strengths:: The demo landing page is concise and easy to follow. The inclusion of the video, transcript, and slides allows for future use.
Concerns:: Assumptions of relevance and accuracy as was dated in 2022 and may have changed by this review.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

This is a useful tutorial to "support curriculum mapping, analysis, and planning at the course and program levels."

Concerns:

It took almost 10 minutes to get to the content of the learning module in the video, consder addition chapters to the video for easier reviewing.

There are several assumptions of knowledge with lack of listing of prior knowledge needs, consider adding a link to the page for other resources would be helpful to better understand phrases such as backwards design for those participants that may not know the lingo.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

In addition to clear instructions, and a demo to watch, there are links to Help.

The page is clear and has color contrast. Page is short and easy to follow. Video is captioned and pdfs of transcript and slides are included. There are no registration barriers, open use.

Concerns:

There are some accessibility issues with the slides pdf that need addressing, missing alt text and other smaller concerns. Including more resources for the concepts covered. The video and the slides do not match, likely because it is mostly the website, but consider adding screen shots or links to the MAP program within the slides.

Other Issues and Comments:: None
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