Outcome Based Education: Too narrow and you risk devaluing human potentials.
Outcome based education, has been in mainstream education for good reasons. It ensure required skills, intended curriculum content be measured at the end of ones learning journey. This article, however would like to argue that the indiscriminate use of this method in higher education has unfortunate effects. In this article I will discuss two issues. 1. Failing to tap the full spectrum of human potential. For any education or whatever production system, a general, big picture outcome is necessary, otherwise how can we be certain that something good is coming out of the system. But OBE has been applied in higher education, in a deterministic and overwhelming way, right down to every lecture conducted. This resulted in OBE becoming a rigid template producing homogeneity in various fields. Yes it is good to ensure the graduates have specific skills, such as using special software, or applying formula and process, or even behave in certain ways in various situations . Howev...