MERLIN, a web-based curriculum development environment helps the user enter information into the Digital Curriculum Database (DCD). Curriculum is created using MERLIN’s “fill-in-the-blank” interface that guides faculty through the instructional design process. The result is instructionally sound,
modularized, digital curriculum that is easily delivered in print or within distance learning systems.

MERLIN:

  • Assists in designing curriculum to meet the needs of industry clients
  • Creates outcome-based modules that are sufficiently flexible for instructors to personalize
  • Allows for the rapid modification of curriculum in a changing learning environment
  • Employs the latest in Internet-based technologies to deliver the richest feature set possible

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VALIDATOR, a fully integrated, highly flexible, web-mediated application designed to support the curriculum validation process, enables staff to efficiently and effectively align learning outcomes with evolving occupational competencies.

VALIDATOR:

  • Creates questionnaires from a database
  • Includes new outcomes
  • Creates short and long answer questions
  • Administers questionnaires electronically
  • Facilitates the immediate analysis of results
  • Dramatically reduces development time
  • Shortens turnaround times
  • Eliminates the need for desk top publishing
  • Provides instant access to data analysis
  • Offers immediate avenues for curriculum response to industry change

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ACCREDITATOR*, a software application tool, provides self-assessment guidelines for programs seeking external accreditation with organizations such as the Alberta Society of Engineering Technologists (ASET), the Canadian Technology Accreditation Board (CTAB), or the Canadian Medical Association (CMA).

ACCREDITATOR:

  • Significantly reduces program staff’s time and effort in the self-assessment phase of an accreditation process
  • Directly accesses a program’s learning outcome statements, objectives, and other data stored in the Digital Curriculum Database (DCD)
  • Systematically compares, links, and reconciles a program’s learning outcome statements and objectives to the accrediting organization’s learning competencies
  • Allows the self-assessment process to be ongoing, updateable, and current
  • Produces self-assessment documentation

* ACCREDITATOR is expected to be available by May 2003.
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