Design, why?

Their are many reasons why teachers want to change the curriculum or start with a new curriculum. In the literature and in the tradition in many institutes there are a number of important quality criteria which has to be fulfilled. But not always teachers are satisfied wit the curriculum. The expected results are not achieved, students are not studying like the y should doe, etc.

Why is that so? Everybody agreed. From research you could expect a good result.  We used some good practices but it did not worked out as expected.Why are our expectations not fulfilled?

In the technical field these situations also happened. They call it a design problem. May be the combination of chosen solutions was not effective, did we analyse the needs of the users correctly,

In this website I will try to see curriculum- and course development through the spectacles of the designer. How does a technical designer make a new of redesign a technical product or services.

How do you design in the technical field and how in the field of higher education?
How to handle the quality criteria and the available evidence from research?
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