2022 Curriculum Management Workshop Agenda
Moving From Episodic To Continuous
Curriculum Review And Innovation
- A New Perspective On GME Curriculum Management
November 3, 2022
8:00 am To 1:00 Pm Pacific Time
Santa Clara University
ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC| Time | Session | Presenter |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Continental Breakfast | |
| 08:30 - 08:40 | Welcome & Introductions | Jeff Bieganek, Executive Director, MBA Roundtable |
| 08:40 - 09:25 | Session I - A Model for Continuous Curriculum Management | Rodney Alsup, D.B.A., CPA, CITP Professor Emeritus |
| 09:25 - 10:00 | Session II - Curriculum Management from a consortium perspective | Paula Lentz, PhD Academic Director: UW MBA Consortium University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Session III – Innovations in Curriculum Mapping | Jonathan Cisco, Director of Education, CourseTune |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Session IV - Curriculum Management and Learning Design | Miriam Ofstein, Executive Director, Academic Operations, Everspring |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Break/Pick Up Box Lunch | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Session V – Discussion and Wrap | Panel - All Presenter |
*Schedule and speakers subject to change
Presenters:
Rodney G. Alsup, D.B.A., CPA, CITP
Rodney is the founder of the MBA News Digest, a news aggregation service that provides B-School leaders access to information about what is happening in MBA programs and B-Schools around the world. He served as Assistant and Associate Dean for Graduate Business Programs at Kennesaw State University and as the EMBA Program Director. During this time, he helped create an Executive MBA for Physician Executives and negotiated and participated in the design of an on-site Executive MBA for BellSouth/Cingular/ATT Corporations. He also served as the first Director of the Georgia WebMBA Program where he helped create the Georgia WebMBA including curriculum development, faculty assignment, marketing and enrollment activities, and a revenue sharing plan along with four other Georgia universities. His international experience includes managing a joint Executive MBA program for Kennesaw State University and the Romanian-American Executive MBA Program of the Institute for Business and Public Administration-Bucharest (IBPAB)-ASEBUSS. He has a long-standing association with the MBA Roundtable. He served as President for two years and he served on the Board of Directors for more than 10 years. Rodney received his BBA and MBA degrees in Accounting from Eastern Kentucky University and DBA from the University of Kentucky. He resides in Durham, NC.
Jonathan Cisco, Ph.D., is Director of Education at Coursetune and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He trains educators on the ins and outs of teaching and learning. His teaching and research focuses on literacy practices in higher education, including demystifying challenging concepts across the disciplines. His work has been published in Higher Education Research and Development, the Journal of Further and Higher Education, Literacy and Instruction, and Teaching and Learning Inquiry. Jonathan is an award-winning presenter in faculty and graduate student development. See his research profile here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonathan-Cisco
Paula Lentz, PhD, is a professor of business communication and academic director for business communication at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire College of Business. She is also the academic director for the UW MBA Consortium Program. In her role as academic director, she works with program staff, instructional designers, and faculty to ensure curriculum alignment with program goals and to promote connections in content across the Program’s courses and among instructors in the Program. In addition, her role as academic director includes the coordination of program assessment. She has received the Association for Business Communication’s Meada Gibbs teacher-scholar award and the UW MBA Consortium Program’s award for Outstanding Instructor in its module (core) courses.
Miriam Ofstein has a wealth of experience in online learning, curriculum development, and team management. In her many years in Higher Education, Miriam has worked in a variety of capacities, including quality assurance specialist, consultant, instructional designer (entry through senior/management level), and director. Currently, she oversees Everspring’s Learning Design functional leads (faculty engagement, instructional design, quality assurance, and creative services), global process development, and program implementation. Additionally, Miriam works with our teams to maintain the highest quality courses through careful review and implementation of appropriate technologies and related processes. Miriam holds an MA in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University and a BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Kansas.
