Resources: Instructional Design & Technology Canada

What is the difference between Curriculum Design  and Instructional Design ? Through my adult education journey, this question has often been a confusion point for myself. I wasn't sure if the two terms were really synonymous or not. So I dug in and here's what I have learned: The International Bureau of Education ( IBE ), a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) created the revised  IBE Glossary of Curriculum Terminology  where it defines Curriculum Design in its 2013 edition  as:   The process of meaningfully constructing and interconnecting the components of curriculum so as to address such fundamental questions as what needs to be learned and how and why, the resources required and how learning will be assessed. (IBE UNESCO, 2013, p. 17) Now let's look at the definition of Instructional Design. In Ellen Wagner's (2011) essay titled "In Search of the Secret Handshakes of ID", as published in the Journal of Appl...