Applied Approach to Designing and Implementing OBE Framework at Thu Dau Mot University

A 4-day OBE workshop "Applied Approach to Designing and Implementing Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) Framework" was held at Thu Dau Mot University from 16 to 19 October 2018.

The 4-day workshop was designed and facilitated by Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, Founder & Principal Consultant of Education Quality International and Ms Jenny Ngoc from VNU-HCM. The workshop aims to achieve the following learning outcomes:

• Describe the characteristics of Education 4.0
• Integrate OBE framework and Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) approach to curriculum design, development, implementation and evaluation
• Select appropriate strategies to engage stakeholders in curriculum design
• Apply the principle of constructive alignment to align stakeholders’ needs, curriculum, learning outcomes, teaching and learning, and student assessment
• Apply revised Bloom’s Taxonomy in writing learning outcomes
• Select appropriate instructional and assessment methods to achieve learning outcomes
• Design student assessment rubrics and marking schemes to achieve learning outcomes
• Evaluate the OBE curriculum for quality enhancement
• Apply change management in implementing OBE

A total of 37 Participants from various universities in Vietnam attended the 4-day workshop.

27th AUN-QA Workshop for Accomplishing Programme Assessment

The 27th AUN-QA Workshop for Accomplishing Programme Assessment was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 9 to 12 October 2018.

The 31/2-day workshop aims to introduce the AUN-QA framework and enhance quality assurance practices based on the 3rd version of the AUN-QA framework at programme level. The content of the workshop encompasses:

• Quality assurance in higher education
• AUN-QA framework and criteria at programme level
• AUN-QA quality assessment process
• PDCA Approach to self-assessment
• Self-assessment report (SAR) writing
• Change Management

The workshop was facilitated by Mr. Johnson Ong Chee Bin, AUN-QA Expert together with Prof. Arnulfo Azcarraga from the Philippines. The workshop was attended by 33 participants from universities in Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.