Organizational curriculum development: On the organizational conditions of competence-oriented modularisation

The university as an organisation is setting a new course for modularisation in the context of curriculum development. Curriculum development after the Bologna Process still treats modules in a manner that is largely detached from an organizational context. Instead, modules are embedded in administrative, technical and financial processes, which are increasingly controlled by campus management systems. This paper shows that modules are not merely didactically conceived units, but rather are organizationally conditioned. Therefore, there will be an increasing need for curriculum developers who incorporate and shape the organizational conditions as early as the conception stage.