For many decades during the 20th century, the majority of educational institutions across the globe had imposed prescribed curricula on their curriculum users (teachers, administrators, and students). The users had very little input or feedback in the process. Because of their non-involvement, teachers, in particular, had to implement and follow largely contradicting directives with hardly any conviction. This situation led to an obvious disconnect between curriculum and instruction. Several schools of thought made great strides to deal with this issue, notably, the progressivist-experimentalist thinkers, who called for making teachers not only active participants but also most accountable in the process of curriculum development, from conceptualization, to design, to implementation, to evaluation, to finally, revision and improvement. 

Education and curriculum are a reflection of life and society; constantly changing at increasingly faster paces, with the explosion of information and technological advancements, the rapidly diversified social, economic, political, and cultural makeup, and a host of unresolved, more entangled, emerging issues and conflicts, locally, nationally, and globally. More demands have been put on further improving, or rather optimizing, student skills and abilities, curriculum quality and vitality, and educational accountability and reinvention.

Modern trends in curriculum construction:

1) Digital Diversity

The present age is an age of ICT technology has touched to al the wakes of human life.  Technology has made various tasks easy, convenient, and of quality. To survive in the concern filed it is necessary for everyone to have the knowledge and skill of technology. Education makes man enable to contribute, it strengthens the capabilities. For the effective transaction of curriculum ICT is a must. Web 2.0 applications must be used for the effective teaching-learning process. Curriculum makers should give clear guidelines regarding this. E.g.  teacher tube is a very useful source for educational resources. Khan academy.org also provides good videos, lectures, and many more which makes learning meaningful, easy, and effective.  

2) Need-based Curriculums

Researches in all the fields resulted in specialization. Need-based curriculum is the foremost need of the present education system. Many universities are developing need-based short term programs for this purpose. E.g. many Universities have introduced courses like – certificate course in PowerPoint, certificate course in tally, certificate course in marketing, etc

3) Modular Curriculum with credit base system

Modular curriculum gives real freedom of learning .especially in the open learning system his approach has been adopted at first but now the majority of traditional universities also accepting his system; this is a real emerging trend in the modern curriculum.

4) Online coerces

Need-based and choice-based curriculums are available online also. E.g. course era .com  has introduced many useful need-based courses for free of cost. The government also takes initiative for this e.g. Right to Information certificate curse has been introduced by the Government. 

5) 21st-century skills

All the curriculums of various courses should focus on 21st-century skills. Skills like collaboration, critical thinking, effective communication, multitasking stress management,  empathy are a must for all the personals.

6) International Understanding

 Globalization has made converted the world into a global village. We should consider the world as one family and for this international understanding must be inculcated through the curriculum.

 7) Constructivism

 The constructivist approach believes that learners should be given the freedom to construct his/her knowledge. Spoon feeding must be avoided. If a learner is fully active in the construction of knowledge then the learning process will be highly effective. In all the curriculums constructivist strategies must be given an important place.

 Conclusion

 Constructivism, modular curriculum, credit system, Information technology these all are the emerging trends in curriculum development. These trends should be given proper justice while developing curriculum. Educators should learn to work together with their students, and with other experts in creating content, and are able to tailor it to exactly what they need.