敏捷课程开发:VUCA时代课程开发新趋向

Agile Curriculum Development:New Trend of Curriculum Development in VUCA Era

VUCA时代的复杂、模糊、多变和不确定性对课程开发响应动态变化需求的能力提出了更高要求,现有开发理念凸显力不从心,而“敏捷”理念提供了可能契机。为探悉VUCA时代的敏捷课程开发,研究从“敏捷”的词义及其在制造领域和软件开发领域的含义入手,提出了课程与教学领域的敏捷界定和敏捷课程开发的四个核心价值观:开发团队的互动胜过流程和工具;可用的课程胜过详尽的教学设计文档;将学习者当协作对象胜过将学习者当客户;响应变化胜过遵循计划。之后从项目管理的角度剖析了敏捷课程开发的关键理念及其与传统课程开发的区别。基于这些认识,研究最后提出了敏捷课程开发的四点行动建议:构建“学习者本位”的课程开发共同体;开展学习需求的动态化、精细化管理;小步调开发,频繁、过程性交付可用课程;过程性集体审议,促进课程民主开发与群智共创。希望研究能够加深学者对敏捷课程开发的认知,为敏捷课程开发的研究提供新方向。

The complexity,ambiguity,changeability and uncertainty of the VUCA era put forward higher requirements for the ability of curriculum development to respond to the dynamic changing needs.The existing development philosophies have failed to meet those requirements very well,and the concept of"Agility"brings possible opportunities.In order to explore the agile curriculum development in the VUCA era,this study starts with the meaning of"Agility"and its implications for manufacturing and software development,and proposes a definition of"Agility"in curriculum and teaching and four core values for agile curriculum development:interactions of development teams over processes and tools;usable curriculum over detailed instructional design documents;treating learners as collaborators rather than as customers;and responding to change rather than following a plan.Then this study analyzes the key concepts of agile curriculum development and the differences between agile curriculum development and traditional curriculum development from the perspective of project management.Based on these understandings,this study finally proposes four suggestions for action in agile curriculum development:building a"learner-centered"curriculum development community;carrying out dynamic and fine management of learning needs;small steps in development,with frequent,procedural delivery of available courses;process-oriented collective deliberation to promote democratic development of curriculum and the co-creation of collective wisdom.It is hoped that this study will deepen scholar's understanding of agile curriculum development and provide a new direction for the research on agile curriculum development.