Creating Curriculum Within the Context of an Enterprise

Abstract

Curricula of the twenty first century promote the development of critical skills, content knowledge, expertise, and literacies for the twenty-one-century learner. Creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration, initiative and self-direction, social and cross-cultural skills, and leadership and responsibility are among the most critical elements a contemporary curriculum should embrace. This chapter provides insights on how to create and sustain an enterprise-based curriculum as an alternative curricular model for educating the twenty-one-century instructional designer. Alternative teaching approaches to instructional design and the experiential learning framework are discussed, as well as the rise of entrepreneurism in education. The chapter concludes with a comprehensive discussion of a case of an enterprise-based curriculum implementation that resulted in the creation of a self-sustaining instructional design consulting organization. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)