Designing a Typical Course-File for the Attainment of Course Outcomes and Program Outcomes: A Case Study of Computer Networks and Security

Even though Outcome-based Education (OBE) is an optimistic framework to offer quality education by institutions and universities, the success of OBE model depends on how the curriculum design and delivery bridges academia and industry with contemporary knowledge, skills, and attitude and enables the graduates to contribute to innovation, develop entrepreneurial skills and reach the society with professional ethics. Undoubtedly, Universities always play the role of transforming students. In this direction, the OBE program needs to be built primarily on curriculum design with effective teaching-learning processes involving key stake holders so that graduates acquire the required attributes and skills at the end of the program. The execution of the curriculum has to be planned in terms of the units of the curriculum called the courses that are to be implemented with proper design, delivery, assessment, evaluation, reinforcement of Teaching/Learning Processes (TLP), and continuous improvement to attain clearly stated outcomes.

This chapter presents the typical template for fine-tuning the course design that serves as a course file to document the blueprint of the process of instruction, assessment, and evaluation within the framework of the OBE and how the expected outcomes are met.

In other words, this Chapter is an attempt to design a typical course file format in line with the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) that consists of several documents required for the implementation of OBE at the course level including the evidence for cooperative/innovative methods implemented, performance analysis and remedial inputs, OBE CO attainment report, and other essentials.