Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) is currently in the process of developing new undergraduate medical curriculum (Curriculum 2.0). The VUSM Curriculum 2.0 has started rolling out in the 2013 fall. According to this curriculum development process, several significant changes have enhanced the existing systems plus adopted the new systems to support the new learning curriculum. VSTAR Learn; an innovative Learning Management System powered by MOODLE, has been built and customized to add the curriculum mapping tool called “CurriculumMap”.
CurriculumMap is a plug-in for VSTAR Learn utilized by educators to design the competence based curriculum.
Current User groups
- Course Director
- Faculty
- Course Coordinator
- Student
Features
- Design of curriculums maps relating Competencies (a.k.a. educational goals), Professional Abilities (a.k.a. learning objectives), Learning Activities, and Assessments.
- Submission of learning activities (a.k.a. lesson plans) by educators with associated searchable metadata.
- Review of submitted materials by an editorial team, with support for revision cycles.
- Searching and browsing of curriculum maps and their related learning object repositories.
- Rating of learning objects by editorial staff and/or public browsers via a star rating system.
- Checking out materials from the learning object repositories via a shopping cart model.
- Packaging of selected curricula items, with a dynamically created curriculum description including links to learning activities and assessments.
- Tracking of downloads and follow up surveying of users.