OBL? OBT? or OBTL? Reflections on the official pedagogy

Recently and internationally, there is an increasing interest in student learning outcomes. In the local context, the UGC encourages its funded institutions to adopt outcome-based approaches to judge whether the processes and deployment of resources are effective in enabling students to achieve the intended student learning outcomes. As an institutional response, HKIED has extensively promoted the OBL approach in recent years, with dynamic initiatives. In this sharing session, Dr. Li Jun will reflect on his tryout and experiences of this approach in teaching a group of students from HKUST last semester. He believes that an OBTL will better lead and facilitate student to learn, and to learn more effectively, in terms of "ideal graduates".