How can nutshell help you?
The age-old challenge of yearly curriculum reviewing has come to an end.
Seha PolatCo-founder & CTOIn the age of information, every single field of research is progressing at a staggering velocity. Higher education institutions are faced with a single truth: it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with the shifting landscape. The conventional methods used by universities to process changes and adapt are simply not efficient enough.
This is where nutshell comes in. In this context, AI is a force of good that allows institutions to rapidly aggregate, analyze and make decisions based on their data. We're aware of the challenges university administrators face, so we adapt AI to academic administration and learning management.
nutshell Curricula is the tool that transforms non-deterministic text generation into an explainable, accountable semantic information labeling system. Turn hundreds of faculty hours worth of tasks into instant results with nutshell.
The Challenge
Universities are required to manually review their curricula and individual course offerings periodically. This review is carried out by qualified faculty members who are responsible for ensuring that the content of the courses is up-to-date and relevant to the needs of students. Curriculum management is not the only task of these faculty members, and a large quantity of person-hours are allocated each year — keeping them from focusing on the actual teaching and research.
There are multiple factors that create the need for curriculum reviews: accreditation cycles, inter-institution collaboration efforts, and developments in the industry that institutions are required to accommodate.
“Keeping the department curriculum up to date is a high priority for our department, but allocating the effort needed to do so has always been a challenge.”
Putting in the hours is not enough by itself. The analysis process needs to be managed intelligently. The output from each field expert needs to be evaluated as a grander picture. Course-wise analysis is often incoherent with the department's broader vision. The lack of communication throughout the department can lead to individual efforts falling short. Orchestrating a department-wide analysis process is a challenge of its own.
The Solution
nutshell Curricula is designed specifically to remedy these issues. The process is very straightforward from the user perspective. You just need to submit your course syllabi and a curriculum plan of the department. That's all, really. After three to five business days, you'll have access to the platform with your own credentials.
Inside the platform, you will have access to a self-study of your department, a benchmarking panel that allows for departmental comparison, and a change-drafting tool that helps you draft changes to your curriculum. The drafting tool is also used to create joint degree programs from scratch. These features all use one common language to classify course teachings: the nutshell Knowledge Atlas. The platform serves as a common workspace where changes, evaluations and analysis notes propagate to all users — enabling asynchronous collaboration.
- See what your curriculum is covering in the knowledge space using self-analysis features.
- Compare your department with others to capitalize on strengths and identify areas for improvement.
- Draft changes to your curriculum or create a new one from existing courses — intra- or inter-institutional.
Results
A few hours on nutshell Curricula is equal to months of work spent on manual analysis. We don't cut any corners — we just build a smart approach and leverage the newest developments in AI and ontology engineering. Utilizing nutshell Curricula will save you hundreds of expert hours that are normally spread over months. It condenses the process to a few days and allows universities to take quick and decisive actions, make sharp turns, and stay ahead of the trends.