Nevertheless, the structure of the curriculum is framed by standard curriculum set by the Malaysian Qualification Agency.
Beginning in the 2010 2011 academic year, the UCSD School of Medicine switched to using a Pass/Fail grading system for the preclinical curriculum, with no change in the content or structure of the curriculum at that time.
And not only the structure of the curriculum, but the content and teaching methods should enable these.
But as with other distance-learning providers, the structure of its curriculum has changed notably since the addition of an online component: While it relies on videotapes sent through the mail, teamwork has become a much more central focus of business classes.
This may imply that the structure of the curriculum is difficult to change.
Table 1 gives an overview of the structure of the curriculum.
"The structure of the curriculum is that there are high-level categories, and there are children of those categories, all the way down to the dimensions we actually measure," he says.
Three instructional contexts in each setting shape such differences: structure of school curriculum and assessment, organization of teaching and mentoring, and student population.
Also the fact that the content and structure of a curriculum is partly context bound neglects that fact that, in particular settings, a traditional approach might be more relevant and desirable.
