Workshops/ seminars/ short courses/ sharing sessions/ symposiums/others
EDC offers numerous activities which:
- help you understand the concepts of outcome-based education
- give you ideas on how to implement outcome-based approaches in your programmes and subjects
- show you examples of real-life cases of OBE from PolyU and overseas
- provide you opportunities to share experience with other colleagues
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In-kind support to work with you side by side on your programme/ subjects
Our Curriculum Revision Exercise required that all programmes and subjects be revised to an outcome-based approach. On this, some of you might wonder if your programme/ subject is outcome-based enough or you might want to further improve your programme/ subject. If you want to have a professional review on your programme/ subject, improve the learning outcomes statements, enhance the alignment of the teaching and assessment methods with the intended learning outcomes, or write assessment criteria,
EDC is glad to work with you side by side to come up with:
- A more outcome-based curriculum
- teaching/ learning activities and assessment methods which are conducive to the intended learning outcomes
- A set of assessment criteria appropriate for assessing students' performance
- Other deliverables in support of implementing OBE in your programme/ subject
To support colleagues in moving towards the outcome-based curriculum, EDC has established collaborative projects with a number of colleagues in improving their subjects or programmes. Go to Search PolyU Experience for some examples.
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Support in planning and implementing departmental promotional activities
Both UGC and PolyU are committed to promote outcome-based approaches in student learning. Departments are asked to address implementation of OBE in their annual business plan. But what can departments do when most of our colleagues are not familiar with OBA to begin with? How can we ease in the idea and encourage its practice in classrooms?
EDC offers to work in partnership with you in figuring out solutions for these problems. We can:
- Participate in your FLTC/ DLTC discussions to offer clarifications and initial ideas
- Identify areas for development for your department by conducting need analysis or programme review
- Look for suitable external consultants to help spark off interest among colleagues
- Suggest promotional activities that suit your context and needs
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Offer departmental workshops that are tailored to your developmental needs
The scope of OBE development is wide and we recognise departments have specific needs that open-to-all workshops cannot adequately address.
EDC offers faculty/department-based workshops customized to the specific developmental needs of your teachers, which:
- Focus on topics of your choice
- Illustrated with examples and materials from your discipline (or similar disciplines)
- Come with follow-up support offered to individual teachers or small groups link
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Help you design and pilot methods for assessing programme outcomes
An important aspect of the outcome-based approach is to collect evidence for students' attainment of programme outcomes which are generic qualities and require integration and application of the knowledge and skills that a student has learned and developed through the programme. While subject assessment focuses on knowledge and skills specific to individual subjects, it does not assess the broad and generic qualities intended for programme outcomes.?
EDC can introduce you to a range of programme outcomes assessment methods and techniques and assist you to design and pilot methods for assessing your programme outcomes.
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Brief you about the new policy and assist you in working out your own LOAP
Update you about new policies on outcomes assessment and assist you in working out your departmental/ programme Learning Outcomes Assessment Plan (LOAP).
VP(AD) has instructed the Working Group on Outcome-Based Education to develop a proposal on an Institutional Learning Outcomes Assessment Plan, which will be implemented as the PolyU's outcomes assessment policy if it is endorsed by the Learning and Teaching Committee and agreed by the departments.
EDC will:
- Serve as a bridge to update you on the development of the new policy and collect your opinions
- Walk you through the institutional LOAP and clarify what departments/programmes need to do
- Provide support to departments in developing and implementing their LOAP in fulfillment of the requirements of the policy.
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Brief you about requirements relevant to student learning outcomes in QA exercises and support you in preparing for them (including comments on draft documents)
Emphasis on the development and assessment of student learning outcomes has become a common feature of external and internal quality assurance processes. A new Quality Assurance Council, which mirrors the Research Grants Council, has been established by the UGC. In light of this, a new round of educational quality audit exercise, which will commence in 2008, will put special emphasis on student learning outcomes.
Feel free to seek support from EDC in your preparation for these QA exercises, particularly the forthcoming QAC Audit. We can:
- Highlight to you the new emphases and the actions involved
- Help you plan ahead so that you will have what you need when the time comes
- Provide comments on the draft documents involved
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Offer workshop series in support of proposal preparation upon the current call
OBA Funding has been set aside for colleagues to develop strategies and methods for implementing OBE in their faculties/ departments/ programmes/ subjects. To help you obtain some more information about the current round of funding and prepare your project proposals, EDC offers workshop series to:
- Introduce you to the focus and priorities for the current round
- Provide theories and international examples relevant to the focus and priorities
- Help you identify areas which need further development at the time
- Share with you what a good proposal should include
- Guide you plan your proposal in detail, such as deciding your project outcomes, the staff and resources involved and the project timeline
Check out for the EDC workshop series in support of proposal preparation upon the current call for proposals
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Provide briefing on OBE to your project staff
As leaders/ owners of OBA Projects, you may want to ensure that your project staff are adequately equipped for working on your OBE project. To help you do with this, EDC provides briefing on OBE to your project staff, which:
- Introduce some basic ideas about outcome-based curriculum design
- Give an overview of the development of OBE in PolyU
- Provide follow-up consultation for better project implementation
You are welcome to join the briefing with your project staff.
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Collaborate with you for dissemination work
All leaders/ owners of OBA Projects are expected to share the project outcomes and deliverables among PolyU staff. To help you organize the dissemination work, EDC offers collaborative support to:
- Make the arrangement of logistics like publicity
- Document your project experience into a report (visit Share Your Experience)
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