It's a learning process for the faculty too. Describe the college's new curriculum. The new curriculum is student-focused. Passive learning, meaning where students sit and take notes. There's little dialogue or discussion in the classroom other than questions and answers between the instructor and student.
Emphasis is on student acquisition of knowledge rather than the delivery of information.
It's outcomes-based, where the emphasis is on the application of knowledge rather than the regurgitation of information. Is this type of focus occurring throughout the United States. In pharmacy education it is. In part, this has been driven by expectations of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education, the accrediting body for pharmacy, where new standards emphasize curricular and student outcomes assessment. From the standpoint of course listings, no.