The OBE challenge to...teaching styles and methods

So will an outcomes-based approach to teaching and learning mean a difference in the way you teach, the teaching and learning strategies you design, the content you cover, your whole approach to the teaching and learning process?

Probably not if your approach to teaching is already student-centered. Probably not if you view your role as something more than a conveyer of the content to the learner. Probably not if you already recognise that graduates must have a broad range of skills including the ability to think critically, the ability to learn how to learn, effective communication and team skills and the ability to reason and question and make moral judgements.

So what's the fuss? Nothing different to what you do now. Or is it? Are these 'learning outcomes' explicit in your unit outline, in your teaching and learning strategies, in your assessment strategies? Do your students know what they have to do to realise the learning outcomes that you expect of them? Can they achieve those learning outcomes with the way you currently teach the unit? How will you know they have achieved these outcomes? How will the students know? Does the way you teach help the students achieve these learning outcomes? Hmmm. Maybe there is a need to rethink teaching styles and teaching and learning strategies.