iOBE Workshop @ UPNM Engineering

We've successfully conducted a full-day workshop titled "Understanding and Using iOBE for the Preparation of Course and Programme Assessment Reports" at UPNM Engineering yesterday (Monday 19/5/2025). Many thanks to Assoc. Prof. Dr Ku Zarina (Academic Deputy Dean) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rashdan (HoD for the Aviation Dept.) for the invitation and hosting of this workshop. Huge thanks to all the participants for being good sports throughout the entire full-day sessions.

This is the second iOBE session for the faculty members @ UPNM Engineering, with the practical aim for them to immediately apply iOBE on their course data. The workshop started with the theoretical session to cover the foundations of OBE assessment, the framework of the software, and the interpretation of results from the software.

In the afternoon, we ran the hands-on session where the lecturers trained by running the software on sample courses first, before moving on to run the software on their own courses, as well as aggregating data for several courses together. It was exciting to see that all of them successfully ran the software on their courses (within several seconds of running the software), and being able to see all their students' performance from many different angles that were not seen before.

We hope that this workshop opens up an opportunity for them to see the potentials of seeing into their course and programme data to a deeper level, with the outcomes of having meaningful data to "close the loop" in the CQI process. We wish them all the best for their upcoming preparation of the Course and Programme Assessment Reports.