Outcome Based Curriculum Development for Studio Courses: Data Mining an example course

Abstract

Over the past few decades, with a growing emphasis on learner-centric methodologies, the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) framework has become prominent, with the aim of bridging the gap between academic learning experiences and industry requirements. Outcome Based Education (OBE) has been proving its prominence to ensure intended outcomes and quality. Efforts in designing and development of outcome-based curriculum help to create an effective learning environment. Outcome Based Curriculum Development (OBCD) ensures not only the domain knowledge but also centennial mastery over the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for Industry 4.0 and above. To fill the gap between academic learning and industry requirements, Studio Pedagogy is gaining prominence, particularly for a few hard core courses that require more activity-based learning rather than traditional teaching-learning, i.e. Studio-Based Learning (SBL). This paper discusses OBCD for such an engineering course, Data Mining that needs theoretical concepts to learn by doing, being taught to 5th semester students as a case study. The end survey and assessment performance demonstrated the effectiveness of designing and implementing curriculum for this course as a Studio course with Studio Based Learning.