8:30 am -  9:00 am

Registration

  9:00 am -  9:15 am

Welcoming address 

Prof. T. P. Leung
Vice President
PolyU

  9:15 am -  9:30 am

Opening remarks

handout       speech

Mr. Michael V. Stone
Secretary-General, UGC

 9:30 am - 10:45 am

Outcome-based approach to teaching, learning and curriculum:
Experience from the UK

blurb     handout

Dr David Baume
Higher Education Consultant
Former Director of the Centre for
Higher Education Practice
Open University, UK

10:45 am - 11:15 am

Tea Break

11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Institutional strategies for implementing Outcome-Based Education:
The PolyU experience

handout 1     handout 2    handout 3    

Prof. Suleyman Demokan
Vice President (Academic Development) PolyU
Dr Angela Ho
Associate Head
Educational Development Centre, PolyU
Prof. Ed Snape
Head, Department of Management & Marketing, PolyU

12:30 pm -  2:00 pm

Lunch

  2:00 pm -  3:15 pm

Outcome-based approach to assessment: Experience from the US

blurb       handout 1    handout 2

Dr Mary Allen
Consultant in Assessment &
Accreditation in Higher Education
Retired Director of the Institute for Teaching & Learning
California State University

  3:15 pm -  3:45 pm

Tea Break

  3:45 pm -  5:00 pm

Concluding plenary:
Outcome-Based Education - issues, challenges and the way forward

Q&A

Chair:
Prof. T. P. Leung
Vice President (Student Development) PolyU
Dr Mary Allen
Dr David Baume