Building an OBA Roadmap
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Building an OBA Roadmap
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Student learning needs
Aims/ desired learning
outcomes
Content/ fundamental
concepts
Learning activities
Assessment
Actual learning
outcomes
Feedback for
evaluation
What is OBA ??
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Student learning needs
Aims/ desired learning
outcomes
Content/ fundamental
concepts
Learning activities
Assessment
Actual learning
outcomes
Feedback for
evaluation
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Student learning needs
Aims/ desired learning
outcomes
Content/ fundamental
concepts
Learning activities
Assessment
Actual learning
outcomes
Feedback for
evaluation
Focus on alignment to achieve outcomes
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Student learning needs
Aims/ desired learning
outcomes
Content/ fundamental
concepts
Learning activities
Assessment
Actual learning
outcomes
Feedback for
evaluation
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Nested Process
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UniversityUniversity UniversityUniversity
ProgrammeProgramme ProgrammeProgramme
CourseCourseCourseCourse
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Strategies for alignment
• Reviewing course outlines• Renewing course evaluation questionnaires• Examining spread of assessment• Considering diagnostic testing• New learning activities, e.g. case-based learning, eLearning
• Mentoring schemes to assist student learning • Mentoring schemes to improve teaching quality • Student participation in feedback• Etc. etc.
Student learning needs
Aims/ desired learning
outcomes
Content/ fundamental
concepts
Learning activities
Assessment
Actual learning
outcomes
Feedback for
evaluation
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Existing projects focusing on alignment?
• List these on ONE side of your file card.
• Label this side of the card with a large 2 & the name of your Dept/ Faculty/ School
• Chat with folk around you
• We will disseminate the lists by email
Example to show
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Major TasksMajor Tasks
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Major TasksMajor Tasks
Discussed and evaluated amongst the programme’s members. Feedback is collected to refine the outcome statements
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Drafted Learning Outcomes Drafted Learning Outcomes http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/sci/OBA/project_progress/project_progress04.html
Project Progress> Project deliverables
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Major Tasks Major Tasks (con’t)(con’t)
Feedback is collected & act as a reference to refinethe outcome statements
Most programmes reached this stage
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Existing activity focusing on defining &/or measuring
outcomes?• List these on ONE side of your file card.
• Label this side of the card with a large 1/3 & the name of your Dept/ Faculty/ School
• Chat with folk around you
• We will disseminate the lists by email
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Lots of current activity!
• Ug programme reviews – with action plans• TPg programme reviews – just beginning• QAC – looming on the horizon• TDGs – well underway• Benchmarking – an ongoing exhortation• 3+3+4 planning – getting closer• Inc. time around 2012 when students will exit
from both forms 6 and 7 to enter CUHK
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Weaving strands together
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• Making sense of disparate activities
• Saving work through synergies
• Supporting student learning
• Taking a scholarly approach
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Capacity building using TDGsCurriculum elements
University-wideLearning
outcomesContent
Learning activities
Assessment Evaluation
2005 TDGs – Enhancements to T&L
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2006 & 2007 TDGs – Stronger focus on OBA
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Plan of action
• Think about
• Which one first? -> -> ??
• Or start with ??
• Or -> -> ??
• There are several ways to get going.
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Road map development
• List what is happening in the Faculty/ Unit
• Choose the strongest element to showcase
• Select the first challenge to work on
• Plan an event/ activity/ mini-project
• Work out a timeline 2008-2012
• Be inclusive of all current projects & demands
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Year 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12
Pilot TDGs
Time-release funding for OBA work in each Unit
Activity
Each Unit develops an OBA
roadmap
Priority strategy (PS) No. 1.
PS No. 2.
PS No. 3.
PS No. 4. Etc.
Report: each Unit
Pilot TDG
Roadmap
Negotiated brief priority strategy report
Internal CUHK event
Final report
Report to UGC
Final TDG report end
of 2008
Roadmap repo
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Hosting HK event
Final OBA repo
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Final comment: Be innovative!!
Embed CUHK characteristics
• Bilingualism and biculturalism
– Combining tradition and modernity
– Bringing together China and the West
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The Chinese University of Hong Konghttp://www.cuhk.edu.hk
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Thank you!