Drivers and Challenges of Curriculum Transformation: the DECART project (Designing higher Education Curricula for Agility, Resilience & Transformation)

DECART Workpackage 3: Curriculum Transformation DECART (Designing higher Education Curricula for Agility, Resilience & Transformation) is a cooperation partnership in higher education funded by Erasmus+. The aim of the project is to propose methods and tools to guide STEM & Management educational leaders in innovative curriculum design and program transformation in an effort to be more prepared for unpredictable VUCA contexts (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous). The project facilitates the identification and sharing of innovative curricula among partners in the project as well as associated international participants, in essence to assess and improve interoperability and resilience of curricula. Over the course of three years (2022-2025), the project brings together four universities from Europe and two from South Africa and Asia.This report (Curriculum Transformation: Drivers and Challenges), R31, summarizes the work done in the third phase of the project, i.e. on understanding curriculum transformation in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). This was mainly done by the UKZN WP3 team, Cecile Gerwel Proches, Macdonald Kanyangle and Angela James.