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Report-On-OBE-SCL-Wo Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) Higher Education Development Program (HEDP) Outcome Based Education & Student Centered Learning A report on the OBE-SCL Workshops conducted at public universities during January, February and March 2018 1st May 2018 Table of Contents Background ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Rationale ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 Local OBE-SCL Workshops during Jan, Feb and Mar 2018 ........................................................................ 4 The Local OBE-SCL Workshop Objectives: ................................................................................................ 4 The specific goals of OBE-SCL Trainings are summarized as four modules below: ............................... 4 The Major OBE-SCL Training Courses Learning Outcomes: .................................................................. 5 Module 1: .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Module 2: .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Module 3: .............................................................................................................................................. 6 Module 4: .............................................................................................................................................. 6 Workshop Schedule ...................................................................................................................................... 6 Location: ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 Participants:................................................................................................................................................... 9 Training materials: ........................................................................................................................................ 9 Training Modality: ...................................................................................................................................... 10 Challenges: .................................................................................................................................................. 10 Expectations from universities .................................................................................................................... 11 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................. 12 Annex: Some photos of OBE-SCL workshops at public universities ......................................................... 12 Page | 2 Background Afghan universities are largely traditional, with teacher-centered pedagogy and passive student learning. International trends in universities are increasingly moving toward active student centered learning (SCL) and outcome-based education (OBE). These also combine with blended learning where on-line and e- learning methods are integrated with on-site, face-to-face interaction between students and teachers. Afghan universities urgently need to modernize teaching and learning to reflect and keep pace with these international trends. As one of the components in the Higher Education Development Program (HEDP) efforts are taken to modernize and enhance the quality of teaching and learning. Hence, Outcome Based Education & Student Centered Learning approach come into play to achieve this goal. The objective of this theme is to assist universities in introducing modern outcome-based education (OBE) and student-centered learning (SCL) in line with current international trends in higher education. The introduction of OBE and SCL will require new approaches to curriculum design and delivery; innovative teaching methods and techniques; active and dynamic learning models; increased use of higher education publications, and ICT and internet- based resources; and the modernization of assessment systems, at the universities. The Professional Development Centers (PDCs) of universities will play an important role in the provision of continuous professional development and capacity building for university academics, management and technical staff, to introduce and establish OBE and SCL and to use ICT, web-based content and digital resources, for teaching and learning. The degree programs which are considered priorities for the country’s economic development will be the first set of programs to which OBE and SCL will be introduced. Over time, OBE and SCL will be expanded to other degree programs. Rationale The concepts of OBE-SCL have been introduced to the Afghan faculties through various local and overseas workshop. The very first workshop was held on November 21st and 22nd 2015 at the Ministry of Higher Education. This workshop was simply an introduction to the OBE-SCL. The OBE-SCL experts from UTM mentored the Afghan faculties in the workshop. At the end of the workshop based on a mutual agreement between MoHE officials and UTM experts, it was recommended that an advanced OBE-SCL workshop needs to be conducted in near future. Therefore, on April 24th – 3rd May 2016 the advanced workshop was held and nearly 170 Afghan faculties from almost all universities and higher education institutes as well as the 4 OBE-SCL experts of UTM participated. This workshop helped Afghan faculties have a more solid understanding of OBE-SCL concepts. At the end of this workshop, UTM trainers asked the participants to complete a teaching portfolio so that they can win a fellowship to enhance their knowledge on OBE-SCL at UTM in a more Advanced Training of Trainers OBE-SCL workshop. Out of 170 participants 24 faculties from 14 universities have been selected after the assessment of their teaching portfolios by UTM experts. The group of 24 afghan faculties started their academic journey to UTM for ToT OBE-SCL Trainer Certificate workshop. The workshop duration was 12 days. After completion of this workshop the champions were officially certified as OBE-SCL Trainer (Champion). These 24 Champions conducted OBE-SCL workshops at 12 universities and 2 higher education institutes for 10-12 days during January, February, March, July and August 2017. These 24 Champions managed to train 356 faculty staff in OBE-SCL. A certificate of participation was awarded to the 356 participants of these workshops. To strengthen the pool of OBE-SCL Champions, MoHE instructed all public universities to introduce 8 faculty staff that meet the criteria to attend the Advanced ToT OBE-SCL Workshop at the University of Page | 3 Technology Malaysia. The introduced faculty staff had to prepare a teaching portfolio which entailed supporting documents such as course syllabus, course learning outcomes, lesson plan, and one assessment sample. Nearly 165 applications (teaching portfolios and supporting documents) were received from all public universities. HEDP with the help of UTM experts reviewed the teaching portfolios and supporting documents. After the meticulous assessment and review of each single applications, 71 faculty staff were shortlisted. The next step was a 20 minute English interview. The panel of interviews with 71 shortlisted faculty staff was composed of MoHE and HEDP staff. The interviewed was designed to gauge the applicants’ level of English proficiency and to learn about the teaching belief and experience as well as find out about their OBE-SCL background knowledge and its practice. After the completion of interview phase, 47 faculty staff out 71 were selected as the winners of the Advanced ToT OBE-SCL Workshop fellowship. 3 out of the 47 finalists withdrew from this program as they went to pursue Ph.D. in India and China. The 44 faculty staff represents all public universities of Afghanistan. Due to the large number of the finalist candidates, and as per suggestion by UTM experts, the 44 was bisected into 22 faculty staff in Batch 1 and 22 Faculty staff in Batch 2. The 22 faculty staff in batch 1 successfully completed the Advanced ToT OBE-SCL workshop during 1-15 October 2017. The other 22 faculty staff in batch 2 also successfully completed the Advanced ToT OBE-SCL workshop during 1-17 April 2018. Now, the total number of OBE-SCL champions across the universities reaches to 68. However, 8 champions had gone overseas to upgrade their knowledge at the level of master and Ph.D. Hence, there are 60 faculty staff as the OBE-SCL Champions/Trainers across all public universities. Local OBE-SCL Workshops during Jan, Feb and Mar 2018 As part of the annual plan on the component of Outcome Based Education & Students Centered Learning, HEDP instructed the champions to conduct the OBE-SL workshops to other faculty staff at their universities. These workshops happened during January, February and March 2018 by the OBE-SCL champions of 2016 and OBE-SCL champions of 1st Batch in 2017 for 12 days. These workshops were conducted at 16 universities and 1 higher education institute. This time around 400 faculty staff were trained in OBE-SCL and blended learning. MoHE supported the OBE-SCL workshops as an official
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