Transition from Traditional to Outcome Based Education- A Case Study

Abstract

Outcome Based Education (OBE) is growing at an astounding rate throughout the world. The required skill set and knowledge after Diploma to become an Engineer is obtained by effective teaching of the Engineering Education. Due to growing technological advancement & with the use of internet and social networking, education system has made lots of innovativeness in teaching learning system which has led the present day engineers to compete globally with new challenges. In the traditional system of education, teachers put the full attention on what they teach rather than on what the students are learning, OBE emphasizes on what is expected from the student when they complete their course rather than how they have achieved. Transition in the outcome based education gives the Institutes a profoundly different means of restructuring the teaching learning process. This paper gives an overview of learner centered learning system introduced in the subject VLSI Design of Electronics and Communication Engineering Branch. Learning & teaching activities that would facilitate students’ achieving the Intended Learning Outcomes were designed and assessment tasks were evaluated. The transition from 3R’s (Reading, writing, Arithmetic) to 4 C’s (Creativity, Critical, thinking, Communication & Collaboration) made a sea difference in course attainment. The result of CO attainment shows that transformation from the traditional teaching learning to learner’s centric approach has given the desired attributes, leading to the conclusion that the OBE approach introduced was a success.