Outcome Based Education—Some Initiatives

Abstract

Engineers & technologists contribute significantly in our social development, economic progress, and enhancement of social and physical infrastructure. Industry in general and manufacturing in particular are facing unprecedented challenges due to globalization. Consequently, the business environment of manufacturing enterprises is facing increasing complexity. The engineering graduates and researchers with the ability to understand the technological complexities, the creative arts and skills are increasingly sought after by industrial and business world. Team-based activities are of great importance for students to learn and tackle and solve the complex global issues at later life. Self study and own initiatives of engineering students at learning stage enable and sharpen them to emerge out as highly acceptable engineers. The Washington Accord which emphasizes on outcome based learning is gaining increasing acceptance among many countries.

RETRACTED: From intensive reading teaching to outcome-based teaching: An empirical study on English reading in China

“…4 OBE encourages student-centered teaching with the philosophy of "success for all students", which is not only fully in line with the requirements of the new curriculum standards, but also lays more attention to students individual learning. 5 Based on Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, one of the theoretical bases of OBE, teachers can lead students' learning step by step, helping them achieve the planned outcomes finally.…”

An Empirical Study on the Flipped College English Classroom Teaching upon Outcome Based Education

“…Muhd Nor Nik Hisyamudin & Shahruddin Mahzan Mohd Azwir (2013), Reddy, T A Janardhan & Reddy, P Srinivas (2014) and etc. made a detailed comparison of OBE among China Taiwan Region, America, Canada, and Japan, and holds that tasks are of great significance which should be evaluated via industrial technical standard or real cases [4,5] . S. K. Kaltfybaev & D M Azhybaev (2014) deems that, the task for OBE should be expressable, measurable, and continuous for the development of the curriculum.…”

“…The CE classroom is still a place where teacher along has the say [10] . (4). Namely, the teaching procedure is out of date, which, to some extent may still be beneficial from the convenience of Internet, the fact that linguistic input overwhelms the output hinders the teaching and learning effect.…”

Dynamic Workflow Enabled Advanced Predictive model in Outcome based Education

“…The properties of OBE which include focus, top-down approach and flexibility have been elaborately explained in [1] and [2]. The different countries which accepted the Washington Accord which adopted the OBE concept are listed out in [3].…”