“Technology offers new ways to structure the way learning and teaching are organised, including through open, online and blended learning to increase flexibility and teacher-student interaction. Open educational resources (OER) and learning analytics have potential to improve learning, but remain under-exploited.”

- Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on a renewed EU agenda for higher education, May 2017

As presented earlier in the 2.1 Lesson: The #dariahTeach Philosophy, #dariahTeach has specific guidelines to support instructors in developing new courses. These guidelines are summarized below:

1.  Extensible, open source and shareable content;

2. Asynchronous and flexible learning;

3. Easily localised and personalised learning environments;

4. Multilingual educational materials;

5. Diverse and multimodal content across multiple disciplines;

6. Educational materials of diverse complexity;

7. Use and reuse at different levels and modalities of education;

8. Iterative tests in living teaching environments.

Having these guidelines in mind but also the fact of the online delivery of courses we compiled a list of benchmarks for Curriculum Design in the context of #dariahTeach.

• Curricula using e-learning components offer personalisation and a flexible path for the learner, while ensuring the achievement of learning outcomes;

• Learning outcomes are assessed using a balance of formative and summative assessment appropriate to the curriculum design;

• Curricula are designed to include e-learning components that contribute both to the development of subject specific educational outcomes and to the acquisition of more transferable educational skills;

• Curricula are designed to enable participation in academic communities via online social networking tools.