Accreditation and

Outcome based Learning

Dr. S. K. Das Mandal
Centre for Educational Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
sdasmandal@cet.iitkgp.ernet.in

www.ide.iitkgp.ernet.in
Challenges and Needs of 21st Century Education
Challenges in 21st Century Education

 How to improve Student Engagement

 How to equip students with the 21st century knowledge, skills and
attitudes?
 How to allow continuous improvement in curricula, incorporation of
better Open Educational Resource, more effective teaching.
 How to Ensure examination system reinforces teaching and learning
 How to ensure life long learning
 How to teach a large class
 Questions for Engineering Education
What is the full set of knowledge, skills and attitudes and their level of
proficiency for a student should develop as they graduate from any
institute?
 Engineering Accreditation (Washington Accord, NBA, etc.)
 Outcome based Education
 Active participation of industry for defining “Outcome of Education”
How do we ensure that students develop / acquire those skills?
Suitable pedagogy for achieving the define outcome
Valid and Reliable ASSESSMENT and EVALUATION
Resources shared by the Industry
Proposed a teaching learning process that support the following objective.
 To improve student engagement by promoting self learning so
that within limits, learners are allowed to follow their own
pace, learning styles
 To equip student with 21st century attitude and skills i.e. UG
engineering students need to take considerably more
responsibility for their own learning than is the case at
present. Learning to learn, communication skills, working in
groups are to be important learning outcomes in addition to
domain specific knowledge.
 Continuous improvement in curricula by incorporating better
educational resources from industry and domain experts
through this framework.
 Provide adequate training to the faculty members for effective
teaching.

 Train the faculty members to evaluate the student skills using

more scientific approach.

 Healthy online debates on course objectives, teaching-learning

strategies, and evaluation