Through its curriculum renewal service, the Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) facilitates the implementation of a curriculum renewal process in an academic unit. A curriculum renewal process can include the completion of 1-6 phases, depending on the scope of curriculum renewal activity an academic unit pursues.

The curriculum renewal phases:

• Determining needs: Identifying the purpose of the development or re-development, identifying the planning or development team(s), identifying evidence and data to inform development or redevelopment, and determining the timeline for the process.
• Creating the vision: Articulating the strategic direction for the new or redeveloped program.
• Developing program learning outcomes: Developing high-level program learning outcomes that include discipline-specific learning outcomes and possibly, graduate attributes.
• Curriculum mapping: Associating specific course learning outcomes with their relevant program learning outcomes (PLOs) that result in the development of a curriculum map, which is a matrix noting those associations.
• Implementing: Completing a phased-in delivery of the new or redeveloped program.
• Evaluating: Completing formative and/or summative reviews of the implemented program to determine if it meets its intended goals and if modifications are required.

An additional monitoring layer complements the curriculum renewal phases:

• Monitoring: Engaging a continuous quality improvement process throughout the curriculum renewal process.