Vol: 8, Issue: 2 2018

Page: 07-19

Curriculum and Instructional Planning in Higher Education

Dr. Radhika Kapur

Curriculum and instructional planning in higher education is an important area. Higher education enables an individual to take up a field in which he is interested informing his career. There are number of areas that need to be taken into consideration when individuals render their contribution in curriculum and instructional planning in higher education. The important areas are, needs and requirements of the students, backgrounds and categories of the students, learning and careergoals, teaching-learning processes, and development of plans, strategies, norms, standards and principles that may facilitate learning amongst the teachers and the students. The main areas that have been taken into account are, elements to promote curriculum and instructional planning in higher education, features of curriculum and instructional planning in higher education, assessment of curriculum and instructional planning in higher education, suggestions for resources used to establish standards for student performance, and role of teacher in higher education.