Abstract
Education is an important enabler for economic uplift of a society and academic institutions need to deliver quality education to equip students with required skills to excel in their professional careers. Due to international initiatives such as Washington and Seoul accords, outcome-based education has gained significant interest from industry, academia, governments, accreditation bodies and students. Outcome-based education is a paradigm shift form conventional education approach and its successful adoption requires sustainable quality practices by higher education institutions. Fostering quality assurance processes for outcome-based education requires careful planning and active collaboration among stakeholders. However, due to the sparse body of knowledge about quality processes in outcome-based education, many academic institutions rely on ad hoc practices, resulting in a trial and error approach. In this paper, we present set of guidelines which can help academic institutions to deploy sustainable practices in their academic programs. We document important guidelines to deliver outcome-based education based on our longitudinal work of ABET accreditation process of three different computing programs (Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, and Cyber Security and Digital Forensics). The successful application of proposed guidelines helps to foster sustainable quality practices in academic programs.
Highlights
Education is considered as an important enabler for social and economic uplift of communities, as it helps individuals to improve their socio-economic status by gaining employment
The notion of outcome-based education emerged, which advocates for setting a measurable learning objective of academic programs and measuring those objectives with appropriate assessments to measure the effectiveness of the academic programs [3]
Quality education requires fostering effective quality assurance processes in a place which can ensure the delivery of the required skillset in graduates to improve their employability
Summary
Education is considered as an important enabler for social and economic uplift of communities, as it helps individuals to improve their socio-economic status by gaining employment. The comparability of education is very difficult tasks as the physical, financial, human, and intellectual infrastructures are not uniform across the educational institutions, so there is a need for a suitable framework which can realistically compare the academic credentials of students graduating from these diverse institutions Keeping this in view, the notion of outcome-based education emerged, which advocates for setting a measurable learning objective of academic programs and measuring those objectives with appropriate assessments to measure the effectiveness of the academic programs [3]. The notion of outcome-based education emerged, which advocates for setting a measurable learning objective of academic programs and measuring those objectives with appropriate assessments to measure the effectiveness of the academic programs [3] This way, it can be ensured that graduating students from any academic institution possess minimum required skill set necessary for professional practice. As signatories of these accords different accreditation bodies such as ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology) started encouraging educational institutions to adopt outcome-based education [6]
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