OBE Explained
Posted by Mojoe on April 19th, 2009
According to the National Department of Education’s Policy Document (1997), outcomes-based education (OBE) should be driven by the outcome displayed by the learner at the end of the educational experience. OBE starts with the philosophy that all learners can learn. From this starting point, OBE clearly defines the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and values that learners are to learn.
The end products of the learning process are called outcomes. If we decide what the end products of the learning process must be, before learning takes place, we say that a system is outcomes-based.