State Higher Education Council Vice Chairman P.M. Rajan Gurukkal has stressed the need for universities and colleges in the State to be ready with Intended Learning Outcome (ILO)-oriented courses, programmes, curricula, and teaching by the end of 2019.
He was inaugurating a two-day workshop on ‘Outcome-based teaching and evaluation training for stakeholders of various autonomous colleges’ organised by the council at Maharaja’s College here on Monday.
Criteria Relied Assessment (CRA) should also be in place by this time as an entrenched curricular system and method of assessment. Students get the maximum benefit from outcome-based education only if the system is in place.
Outcome-based education will change the design of courses, nature of teaching, and the method of evaluation, he said.
Dr. Gurukkal pointed out that each university had the freedom to determine the outcomes of its courses and programmes as outcome determination was a creative exercise with flexibility and choice. Universities have to ensure that the determined outcomes and curricular content are appropriately linked up with each other. ILO provides the framework for curriculum evaluation, he said.
Maintaining that there is a disconnect between course content and goals, Dr. Gurukkal said the council would address the predicament through Outcome-based education, which was an integrated teaching/learning system with pre-determined learning outcomes. Outcomes denote what students are able to perform after learning, he said.