National level Intercollegiate Faculty Development Program on Outcome-Based Education

National level Intercollegiate Faculty Development Program on Outcome-Based Education

Sep-11-2021, Articles

“All students deserve access to an education that prepares them to succeed even outside the classroom, to survive without forgetting what has been taught within the classrooms, “

And St. Philomena’s College (Autonomous) Mysore is committed to serving this goal in association with ipsr solutions limited. 

The National level Intercollegiate Faculty Development Program on Outcome-Based Education was a successful event conducted as an online webinar for six days (30th August-4th September) and the main focus of this program was Higher education institution’s “OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION” as per the NEP Policy 2020.

About the Faculty Development Program:

 The FDP sessions were delivered through live webinars and also through hands-on activities like Learning Management Portal (LMS). Outcome-based education is defined as an approach to education in which decisions about the curriculum are made and at the end of the course students should be able to present – professional knowledge, skills, abilities, values, and attitudes- rather than on the educational process and also it generates a transparent expectation of excellent results.

The event was marked with the presence of almost 1000+ participants from 500+ colleges within 27 States (including UTs) and 6 other participating Countries (Nigeria, Afghanistan, Liberia, Nepal, UAE & USA)which made this event a grand one.

The Outcomes of this FDP were: 

Faculty would be able to ; 

• Identify the relevance and scope of OBE.
• Formulate PO’s, PSO’s, and CO’s appropriately using Bloom’s Taxonomy verbs.
• Prepare an appropriate course design for OBE.
• Compute the final grade points of CO’s, PSO’s and PO’s related to the Programme.
• Apply tools to prepare various analytics reports on OBE as per the NAAC perspective.

Day 1 of FDP:

The first day of the National-level Intercollegiate Online Faculty Development Program began with the Inaugural Session on (30th August 2021) at 2:30 pm, and it was organized by the Academic Session of St. Philomena’s College Mysore, in the presence of Rev. Monsg. Leslie Moras (Episcopal Vicar – Diocese of Mysore ), and Dr. Mendus Jacob (Guest of Honour – CEO IPSR), Rev.Dr. Bernard Prakash Barnis (Rector/Manager), Rev.Fr.Maria Xavier (Vice-Rector), Rev. Fr. John Paul R (Campus Administrator), Dr. Alphonsus D’Souza (Principal), Mr. Vidhyadhar Sanjay Nair (Vice Principal), Prof.Othbert Pinto (PG Director), and Mr. Britto Dominic Rayan (Controller of Examinations). The program was followed by, Introductory Remarks by Dr. Mendus Jacob – M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D., MIoD, M.D & C.E.O – IPSR & Valin Technologies, U.K. Director – MCA, Marian College, Kuttikkanam (Autonomous), Former Director of School of Applicable Mathematics, M.G. University and Academician and Entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience.

About the Learning Domains, an FDP Session had taken place and it was by Dr. Sunil Job K.A, Chief of Academic Solutions – IPSR, Former College Principal and an OBE Specialist, a Blogger and Resource person for National conferences, and An academician with 25+ years of experience. 

Day 2 to Day 5 of FDP:

From Day 2 to day 4 the sessions were about Outcome-Based Education – Introduction, and Formulation of Outcomes, Assessment Design and Mapping Outcomes, Course Plan, and Rubrics design based on OBE by Dr. Sunil Job.  Day 5’s session was taken by Dr. Mendus Jacob focusing on the Calculation of Attainment in OBE.

The Final Day:

The final day’s session was on OBE Analytics Reports and Tools by Mr. Sijo Thomas – Consultant Software Architect, Professional with 10+ years of experience in the Education and IT Industry in developing Academic Solution products implementing cutting-edge technologies like Machine Learning and AI. This was followed by another session ‘OBE- Road Ahead’ and Best practices by Dr. Mendus Jacob.

 

Hands-on Activity through LMS:

This event has witnessed some interesting question-answer sessions and also witnessed usage of Mentimeter Polls which simultaneously resulted in a good outcome. One interesting question raised by Dr. Mendus Jacob was; “Which are the strong pillars of Teacher? ” subsequently answered by the experts in the form of word Art. 

 

The Shift from Content-based Education to Outcome-based Education was aimed to prepare learners for life in society and for performing tasks. The intention of the outcome-based approach is to focus as much on the process of learning and the final outcome, as well as on the knowledge and skills. In this way, the process of achieving outcomes during the process of learning can be related directly to the way in which outcomes are achieved in the world of work.

 

 

Mentimeter poll on OBE:

Before the session started on the topic of OBE, people were not having much clarity about OBE. The below bar chart image represents a Mentimeter poll based on the topic “How proficient are you in OBE?”.The bar chart illustrates that the highest percentage of respondents was having only moderate knowledge about the topic and it was 49%, 44% of the respondents were new to OBE, 5% of the respondents were having good knowledge and 1% of this group was expert in OBE.

 

The below bar chart image describes that at the end of the session the level of knowledge about OBE changes dynamically.

 

More than half of the respondents, that means 66% of them have a piece of good knowledge on OBE, 21% of the respondents were on moderate knowledge, 8% of the respondents still new to OBE and last 6% of the respondents were experts in OBE.

Feedback of FDP:

Please find the graphical representation of the feedback received after the FDP

Overall how satisfied were you with this webinar?

How informative did you find our webinar?

How was the quality of the knowledge transfer in FDP?

Which activity was more useful to you?

What is your opinion about this blended model of FDP which incorporates both interactive live sessions and LMS based tasks and assignments?

 

Outcome-based education is the future and the future is almost here!

 

 

This Report was created by IPSR AcademiX FDP Team.