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Facilitating Curriculum Reform and Implementation of Modern Teaching Methods at Yerevan Haybusak University (YHU)

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Education

8VS1-VM-AM-VOORUD
Timeframe 01.07.2024-31.12.2024 Lõppenud
Target group Yerevan Haybusak University
Budget 52 350 EUR
Funders
  • ESTDEV

The project involves consulting on the reform of Yerevan Haybusak University's (YHU) bachelor’s program in management and implementing modern teaching methods to meet the conditional accreditation recommendations set by the Estonian Quality Agency for Education in 2023. These recommendations include developing and aligning learning outcomes and updating the curriculum content. The project will assess the current state of the management curriculum and plan the development process for an outcome-based curriculum, following the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in EHEA (ESG). It will propose updated curriculum content and train a core team at YHU in the methodology of outcome-based curriculum development, enabling them to implement it broadly within the university. The direct beneficiaries of the project are the developers and implementers of the YHU management bachelor’s program, YHU staff involved in teaching and administration, and YHU students

Project objectives

The overall objective of the project is to develop core competences in curriculum development based on learning outcomes at YHU, which will enable the University to systematically apply the principles of quality assurance of the European Higher Education Area in curriculum reform and implementation.

Actions and results

Stages:
1. Familiarisation with the YHU undergraduate management curriculum documentation, curriculum development and quality system documentation, and the legal framework for higher education in Armenia. 
2. EBS visit to YHU: meetings with curriculum development officers and faculty, mapping of needs and opportunities, familiarisation with national regulations and constraints, formation of core curriculum development group.
3. Study visit of the YHU core curriculum development team to the EBS - meetings with the EBS staff involved in curriculum development, introduction to digital learning solutions and their implementation, training of the core curriculum development team on quality assurance in the EHEA and on the principles of outcomes-based curriculum development and modern (digital) learning methods. 
4. EBS visit to YHU - designing the undergraduate management curriculum in collaboration with the YHU core curriculum development team.
5. Training of lecturers on output-based learning methodologies.
6. Preparation and delivery to YHU of a model curriculum development process and implementation methodology.