RECOGNITION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES

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RECOGNITION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES

• WORKING GROUP 3

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INTEREST IN LEARNING OUTCOMES I

• Formulate HE policies
• Overall policies
• Shift emphasis
• Learning outcomes in QA

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INTEREST IN LEARNING OUTCOMES II

• Implement HE policies
• Tools to assist in admission and placement of
  foreign students
• Tool to facilitate recognition of foreign
  qualifications
• Defining the competence of a specific
  professional study program
• Adapt transcripts to better reflect learning
  outcomes
• Challenge how do you assess learning outcomes?
• Facilitate cooperation and joint study programs
  with foreign institutions

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INTEREST IN LEARNING OUTCOMES III

• Improve communication/information
• make learning outcomes understandable for users
• Students
• Employers
• Immediate utility
• national Bologna Promoter
• developing a national qualifications framework
• designing and applying learning outcomes as a HE
  teacher

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ISSUES I

• Level of details in describing learning outcomes
• Relation learning outcomes/workload
• How to meet expectations of employers with regard
  to LO?
• NB Employers have very different expectations in
  terms of LO!
• Relationship between intended and actual learning
  outcomes

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ISSUES II

• Relationship between minimum and average LO
• How closely do learning outcomes have to match
  for them to be recognized?
• Are the missing outcomes really necessary?
• LO should be measurable
• But can everything be measured? Cf.
  understanding

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ISSUES III

• LO process of learning, teaching and assessment
• What about attitudes?
• If learners have developed the expected knowledge
  and skills, even understanding, but not the
  expected attitudes, should they be credited with
  having achieved the learning outcomes

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RECOMMENDATIONS I

• Improve communication/information about learning
  outcomes in easily understandable terms
• Include a description of softer learning
  outcomes
• LO should embrace both subject related and
  generic outcomes
• Adapting LO to all kinds of education, including
  distance education
• Write LO in a way that can relate to learning
  from a wide variety of sources

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RECOMMENDATIONS II

• Training should be provided for HE staff in
  designing, implementing and assessing LO
• The four main purposes of HE have to be taken
  into account in formulating LO