Curriculum design and development is a complex task, and in today's highly connected and digitized world, taking advantage of the tools available to revolutionize this task is a worthwhile endeavor. The purpose of this work is to outline a model for the creation and maintenance of a platform to house a repository of teaching artifacts to include the core content of a given curriculum such as the courses and topics along with supporting content such as lectures, case studies and assessments. The underlying idea behind this platform is that its creation, development and survival will be driven by experts in the given domain along with other relevant contributors including educators who will contribute all the content in an international collaborative setting. Essentially, this is a quality assured crowdsourcing venture, and in the educational space quality must always trump quantity. This platform will be available to all educators, faculty and universities and because of the inherent attributes of a platform with diversified contributions, curricula will be more flexible, context aware and less biased. Therefore, users will be able to design a curriculum that suits their individual needs and circumstance, while at the same time there is the assurance that the curriculum and associated content will meet certain minimum quality requirements. Developing countries which often lack expertise can have ready access to this pool of resource made available by the best minds in the given field. This work will present a solution to manage contributions to this platform and explore the feasibility of such a maintenance model which is restrictive enough to ensure only the best submissions get published to the repository, while being relaxed enough to allow for sustained growth of the repository. A solution for the structuring of a curriculum within the platform will also be presented which will allow for efficient resource discovery and the implementation of algorithms that allow for dynamic adaptive selection of course and topic when designing a curriculum.
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