Abstract Manager

Oral

OB2-2-1

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To identify factors that facilitate and impede the goals of UGME curriculum renewal, we conducted 16 semi-structured interviews with people who played key roles in the curriculum renewal process. We conducted a thematic analysis of interviews informed by Crossan's 4Is model of organizational learning. Analysis revealed that curriculum renewal is not a bounded event, but an ongoing process of organizational learning. The themes of Collaboration, Engagement, Leadership, Decision-making Practices, and Processes and Structures provide insight into the factors that facilitated and impeded the renewal process. Findings provide insight into ways that outstanding issues can be addressed and that the on-going process of curriculum renewal can be supported through individual and collective actions.

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General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)

Oral

Education Research

Jr. Faculty (less than 5 years in practice)

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Curriculum Renewal as Organizational Learning

In 2015, the UGME program at the University of Manitoba began implementing a renewed curriculum after a process that began in 2010. To identify factors that facilitate and impede the goals of curriculum renewal, we relied on Crossan's 4Is model of organizational learning that links individuals, groups, and the organization through the four processes of intuiting, interpreting, integrating, and institutionalizing.

As part of a mixed-methods evaluation of the new curriculum, we conducted 16 semi-structured interviews with leadership, faculty members, and administrators who played key roles in the curriculum renewal process. We conducted a thematic analysis of interviews informed by Crossan's 4Is model of organizational learning.

Analysis of interviews revealed that while many of the goals for the renewed curriculum have been achieved, some outstanding issues remain. Also, curriculum renewal is not a bounded event, but an ongoing process of organizational learning. The themes of Collaboration, Engagement, Leadership, Decision-making Practices, and Processes and Structures provide insight into the factors that facilitated and impeded the renewal process.

Some of the goals of curriculum renewal have been achieved through strong leadership, frequent collaboration, and engagement from multiple stakeholders that facilitated the development of shared understandings through which new routines and processes formed. Curriculum renewal was impeded by inconsistent decision-making processes and evolving processes and structures in terms of sufficient labour force, recognition, and protected time. Findings provide insight into ways that outstanding issues can be addressed and that the on-going process of curriculum renewal can be supported through individual and collective actions.

Curriculum Renewal

Organizational Learning

Curriculum Implementation

Undergraduate

Curriculum

Evaluation

Undergraduate

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