The Effectiveness of the Outcome-Based Curriculum Towards Improving Educational Quality for Technical Education

Abstract

: Outcome-Based Education (OBE) is a learner-centric teaching and learning methodology in which the course delivery, assessment is planned to achieve stated outcomes. The paper describes a methodology for developing an outcome-based curriculum based on a framework design by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and methodology for measuring the effectiveness of the outcome-based curriculum based on learner feedback. The effectiveness was measured in five dimensions - (i) Learner Engagement, (ii) Active and Collaborative Learning, (iii) Continuous Updation and promotion of self-learning, (iv) Promotion of Higher-Order Thinking, (vi) Learner Satisfaction. The study indicates that the methodology was useful to promote self-learning, Engagement and promote higher-order thinking.