Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) is an educational approach that focuses on defining desired learning outcomes and designing the curriculum backwards from those outcomes. The key principles of OBE are clarity of focus on intended learning outcomes, designing the curriculum backwards from the outcomes, setting high expectations for learning, and providing expanded opportunities for students to achieve the outcomes. OBE aims to facilitate higher-order learning and mastery of skills rather than just accumulating course credits.
Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) is an educational approach that focuses on defining desired learning outcomes and designing the curriculum backwards from those outcomes. The key principles of OBE are clarity of focus on intended learning outcomes, designing the curriculum backwards from the outcomes, setting high expectations for learning, and providing expanded opportunities for students to achieve the outcomes. OBE aims to facilitate higher-order learning and mastery of skills rather than just accumulating course credits.
Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) is an educational approach that focuses on defining desired learning outcomes and designing the curriculum backwards from those outcomes. The key principles of OBE are clarity of focus on intended learning outcomes, designing the curriculum backwards from the outcomes, setting high expectations for learning, and providing expanded opportunities for students to achieve the outcomes. OBE aims to facilitate higher-order learning and mastery of skills rather than just accumulating course credits.
Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) is an educational approach that focuses on defining desired learning outcomes and designing the curriculum backwards from those outcomes. The key principles of OBE are clarity of focus on intended learning outcomes, designing the curriculum backwards from the outcomes, setting high expectations for learning, and providing expanded opportunities for students to achieve the outcomes. OBE aims to facilitate higher-order learning and mastery of skills rather than just accumulating course credits.
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Outcomes-Based Education
MISHEIL R. GUIANG Summary of topics
Definition of Outcomes-Based Education (OBE)
History of OBE Four Principles of OBE Definition of OBE Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) is a process that involves the restructuring of curriculum, assessment, and reporting practices in education to reflect the achievement of higher order learning and mastery rather than accumulation of course credits. The primary aim of OBE is to facilitate desired changes within the learners by increasing knowledge, developing skills, and/or positively influencing attitudes, values, and judgment. Definition of OBE Guiding principle: The best way to learn is to first determine what needs to be achieved. Once the end goal (learning outcomes) has been determined, the strategies, processes, techniques, and other way and means necessary to achieve the end goal can be decided. The curriculum is only a means to an end. It may be restructured if the learning outcomes are not achieved. History of OBE Middle Ages, apprenticeship Tyler’s educational objectives, 1950 Bloom’s Taxonomy, 1958 Competence-based education, 1960s Glaser’s criterion-referenced learning, 1963 Spady’s OBE approach, 1994 Four Principles of OBE Clarity of focus Design down High expectations Expanded opportunities Clarity of focus This principle means that curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation should be determined by the intended learning outcomes. Under this principle, curriculum designers must identify a clear focus on what they want learners to be able to demonstrate at the end of a significant learning time. Once these outcomes are identified, the curriculum is constructed by backward mapping of knowledge and skills. Design down This principle means that all curricular and educational activities should be designed back from the point where the exit outcomes are expected to happen. Under this principle, curriculum designers must clearly define the significant learning that learners are to achieve at the end of their formal education. Thus, curriculum designers develop systematic education curricula, trace back from desired end results, identify learning building blocks, and link planning, teaching, and assessment decisions to significant learning outcomes. High Expectations This principle means that high and challenging performance standards must be set to produce learning. Under this principle, curriculum designers must engage deeply with issues confronting learning, and must push beyond the existing standards in order to improve the learning process. Expanded opportunities This principle means that learners do not learn the same thing in the same way. Under this principle, curriculum designers must provide flexibility to learners and create more than one opportunity for learning to occur. Multiple learning opportunities must be provided to match the learner’s needs with teaching techniques. Summary OBE is an approach in learning that espouses the idea that the best way to learn is by determining first the learning outcomes that one desires. Thus, in order to achieve learning, the desired learning outcomes must be identified (clarity of focus), the process of achieving these desired learning outcomes must be broken down into smaller components (design down), high standards to measure learning must be established (high expectations), and learners must be afforded flexibility and given different opportunities to learn (expanded opportunities). Identify, operationalize, measure, expand. Thank you for listening!