Designing Constructively Aligned Quality Education at Viet Nam National University-Ho Chi Minh City

A 2-day workshop on "Designing Constructively Aligned Quality Education" was organised by the Centre for Educational Testing and Quality Assurance of Viet Nam National University - Ho Chi Minh City on 22 and 23 March 2016. The workshop was attended by more than 40 participants from the member universities of VNU-HCMC. The workshop was designed and facilitated by Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, AUN-QA Expert (Singapore). 

The learning outcomes of the workshop are as follows:

• Relate the learning eco-system and constructive alignment
• Describe the PDCA approach to curriculum design and development
• Align expected learning outcomes from stakeholders’ needs to curriculum
• Apply revised Bloom’s taxonomy in writing learning outcomes
• Apply appropriate teaching and learning strategies and student assessments for effective learning
• Apply constructive alignment of learning outcomes, teaching and learning strategies and student assessments
• Create a template for constructive alignment of learning outcomes, instructional methods and assessment methods