DLSU HOSTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OUTCOMES-BASED EDUCATION

DE La Salle University (DLSU) hosted the 2019 Asean University Network Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) international conference on March 4 and 5 at Dusit Thani Hotel.

Themed “To Be Or Not To Be: Outcomes-Based Education and AUN-QA Quality Culture in Practice”, the conference served as a platform for administrators, educators and quality-assurance practitioners from all over the world to discuss the need to transition from input-based teaching to outcomes-based learning in order to adapt to the needs of a fast-paced and technologically connected society, brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The conference sessions also delved on how to transition from input-based teaching to outcomes-based learning, and how to effectively use learning management systems, foster deep and active links with stakeholders, and generate a principles-based quality culture.

Keynote speakers for the event were former Education Secretary and De La Salle Philippines President Br. Armin Luistro, FSC, University College Cork President Emeritus Prof. Michael Murphy, and Vienna University of Economics and Business dean of accreditations and quality management Dr. Oliver Vettori. Their lectures were “New paradigms for raising both quality and university recognition in the disrupted world of higher education”, “Quality Assurance as a survive-and-thrive strategy in a disrupted world” and “From quality assurance to quality assured: More deeply ingraining a quality culture within our communities”, respectively.

For this year’s event, attendees from the Asean region Europe and Latin America participated in the conference.

The AUN-QA Network is established as “the Asean quality-assurance network in higher education.” The organization is geared toward promoting quality assurance in higher education institutions, raising the quality of higher education, and collaborating with both regional and international bodies for the benefit of the Asean community.