College Universtiy Students Should Take Advantage of Open Curriculum

Is education system in collegues good enough to prepare us for the future?Although students start the last stage of their education life, does it make sense to give the freedom of choosing compulsory courses to university?For example in some collegues, history lesson is compulsory for computer engineer departments, electronics lesson is compulsory for civil engineer departments and advanced mathematic lesson is compulsory for fine arts departments.There can be some explanations for university administration about this subject, but in my opinion,(as a university student) this traditional system needs to be changed, because every individual person has different characteristics and needs and university administration must not determine these students' courses just by looking of their department.For these reasons, university students must absolutely be free to choose their own courses which is called "open curriculum".

First of all, when university students have complete freedom to choose their own courses their performance clearly increases in many ways.Primiraly, this provides students to pay more attention to courses.Because they choose these courses volunteerly, it's obvious that these courses attract students more than the others.When they have the freedom of choice, their attendance to these classes increases, too.According to a survey conducted by Tom Clay and Lori Breslow, who are learning consultants, the most important factor students decide on lecture attendance is quality/clarify of lectures and they explain the reason with these words: "If students do not expect to learn from lectures, they are less likely to attend classes"(2006, para. 5).This result surely shows that students expectations and quality of lectures directl...

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...onal system.Finally, i believe college students can be more confident and less fearful about university education thanks to this system and universities can understand our different needs and interests as different individuals.

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According to a survey conducted by Tom Clay and Lori Breslow, who are learning consultants, the most important factor students decide on lecture attendance is quality/clarify of lectures and they explain the reason with these words: "If students do not expect to learn from lectures, they are less likely to attend classes"(2006, para. 5).

As a proof to this increasing success rate, according to a research in Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, although open curriculum system began to be implemented in 2006,the students' performance was over the average after 5 years(Dumence,George,Taylor & Dollase,2012,pp 326-327).