Distributed curricular goal mapping

• Main Author: Yu, Stephanie (Stephanie T.)
• Other Authors: Steve Ward.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016
• Subjects: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100613

Thesis: M. Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015. === This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. === Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. === Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-52). === For this thesis, I implemented a tool that documents the equivalent of an API specification for a course or other curriculum component in an educational curriculum. This API specification is the contractual relationship between each course and the surrounding curriculum. By decomposing the curriculum in a structural manner, we can more easily ensure consistency for courses and the goals they promise to teach across a curriculum. With such a structure, we can also begin to visualize these relationships between courses, to better understand where what students learn will lead them in their time in academia. To do this, I created a visualization tool that takes advantage of the structure provided by the API specification and allows for the observation and manipulation of these relationships. In addition to applying structure to a curriculum and visualizing the resulting relationships, I have also designed and implemented protocols that will allow these relationships to be shared and distributed across universities. === by Stephanie Yu. === M. Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering