http://www.funderstanding.com/content/outcome-based-learning Education, Training, and Product Design Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:02:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.funderstanding.com/content/outcome-based-learning/comment-page-1#comment-702 Kenny Dunn Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:34:45 +0000 http://h174870wp.setupmyblog.com/?p=134#comment-702 I think some of this is good, although I would not develop a curriculum based solely on this--because predicting the future is virtually impossible: for example, for some students a focus on "shop" and hands on learning will be the rest of their lives at work; while others need a curriculum to exclusively prepare them for college. Andyet, throughout life, times and circumstances change. During this, the information age, for example, most manufacturing jobs are gone, and the curriculum needs to support an intellectual "lifetime of learning," that, amazingly, did not really exist 30 years ago: gone are the days when a student could get a high school diploma, and retire at 60 with two different pensions. Today, I beleive students can expect to, instead of going to and from work--going to work, and to and from college all of their lives. I think some of this is good, although I would not develop a curriculum based solely on this–because predicting the future is virtually impossible: for example, for some students a focus on “shop” and hands on learning will be the rest of their lives at work; while others need a curriculum to exclusively prepare them for college. Andyet, throughout life, times and circumstances change. During this, the information age, for example, most manufacturing jobs are gone, and the curriculum needs to support an intellectual “lifetime of learning,” that, amazingly, did not really exist 30 years ago: gone are the days when a student could get a high school diploma, and retire at 60 with two different pensions. Today, I beleive students can expect to, instead of going to and from work–going to work, and to and from college all of their lives.

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