Chandigarh, Sept 8 – Additional Chief Secretary, Higher Education, Mrs. Jyoti Arora said that universities should hold seminars with their faculty members to make recommendations on Learning Outcomes Framework and the integration of the same into curriculum. Action plan should also be devised by all State Universities to implement Choice Based Credit System alongwith Outcome based Learning.
Mrs. Arora was presiding over a workshop organised by Higher Education Department in collaboration with Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (KUK) and Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and Technology (GJUST), Hisar on “Improving the Quality in Higher Education Institutions of Haryana”, here today.
She said that higher education institutions and specifically teacher education programs constantly seek to improve the quality of their teaching and graduate outcomes. She said that the purpose of this workshop was to explore and deliberate upon the proposed learning outcome based curriculum given by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The UGC has divided the framework into three themes on which discussions were held in the workshop.
Current trends in higher education quality assurance focus on first identifying the intended outcomes or goals of a course or program and then aligning teaching, learning, and assessment so as to maximize the likelihood that students achieve those outcomes or goals.
Learning outcomes specify what graduates completing a particular programme of study are expected to know, understand and be able to do at the end of their programme of study. Objective of the learning outcomes based curriculum can be summed up as help in developing student into a very competent and successful individual. Themes chosen by the UGC under learning outcome based curriculum are quite diverse and contemporary.
The workshop was attended by about 50 senior faculty members from 12 State Universities and four private universities. The workshop was divided into three sessions which were chaired by Vice-Chancellor, KUK, Prof K.C. Sharma and Vice-Chancellor, GJUST, Hisar, Prof Tankeshwar Kumar.
