Learning Outcomes in Higher Education: Implications for Curriculum Design and Student Learning

Curriculum Development in South African Higher Education Institutions: Key Considerations

“…What is important in a student-based curriculum is the realisation that learning is for students and such learning is measured exhibited behaviours after engagement with curriculum content. Such a curriculum enables students to discover and construct knowledge for themselves (Maher, 2004). Lecturers have to aware of what a student-based curriculum entails in order to plan curricula that are student centred as reflected by appropriate outcomes.…”

Assessing Industrial Engineering Courses Using Benchmark, Faculty Experience and Fe Requirements

“…The product model has been valuable in developing and communicating transparent outcomes to the student population and has moved emphasis away from lists of content. Recent literature in this area suggests that in using this model, care should be taken not to be overly prescriptive when writing learning outcomes (Gosling, 2009;Hussey& Smith, 2008;Maher, 2004;Hussey & Smith, 2003).…”

An in-depth analysis of learning goals in higher education: Evidence from the programming education

“…In programming education, having clearly defined goals motivates learning and thus enables successful learning outcomes. (Locke & Latham, 2006) As a matter of fact, learning outcomes can be defined in general as acting as a benchmark for ensuring teaching quality (Maher, 2004;Xia, 2013). Bruse et al (2004) defined learning as deepening one's personal experience of a given phenomenon and teaching as enhancing the students' experience of the given phenomenon through the alignment of critical dimensions in these experiences.…”