OBET - Outcomes Based Education and Training

Duration

Two Days

Overview

Demonstrate understanding of the outcomes-based education and training approach within the context of a National Qualifications Framework.

1. Education in the past

  • Education in the 20th Century
  • Business and Industry in the 20th Century
  • What do Employers want from schools

2. Outcomes Based Education and Training

  • Outcomes-based Education and Training
  • The philosophy of OBET
  • Power principles of OBET
  • Putting together the philosophy and principles

3. Specific Outcomes and Standards

  • Basing everything on Outcomes
  • Specific Outcomes
  • Redefining assessment

4. Assessment

  • Assessment
  • Assessment in OBET
  • Functions of Assessment
  • Principles of Assessment
  • Recognition of Prior Learning
  • Formative and Summative Assessment
  • Implications of Assessment
  • Roles of Assessment

5. Design & Delivery of OBET Material

  • Facilitating the OBET Way
  • Training Strategies
  • Design of Training Material

5. The National Qualifications Framework

  • What is the NQF
  • Rationale of the NQF
  • Purpose of the NQF
  • Objectives of the NQF
  • Principles of the NQF
  • The structure of the NQF
  • The role of SAQA
  • Other NQF Bodies