OBE3 Team shares best practices on Student-Centered Teaching and Learning to Maritime Academy Faculty

The OBE3 Team: From right to left (Oreta, Belino & Efren - OBE)

 The Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) Team composed of  Dr. Oreta (Andres), Dr. Belino (Manuel) and Engr. Efren De La Cruz or OBE3 shared the best practices in Engineering on OBE and Student-Centered Teaching &Learning (TLA) to the faculty of the NYK-TDG Maritime Academy, Calamba, Laguna last May 29-20, 2018. Dr. Belino gave an overview and rationale on global trends on OBE and a lecture on Enhancing Creativity and Critical Thinking. Engr. Efren Dela Cruz presented the basic principles of OBE and Strategies on Cooperative Learning in the classroom. Dr. Oreta, on the other hand, presented various student-centered teaching and learning activities (TLA), outcomes-based assessment (OBA) and shared his TLA practices in the teaching of structural engineering courses at DLSU.

The OBE3 lecturers with the NYK-TDG Maritime Academy Faculty

One of the activities in the workshop on creativity was writing alternative lyrics of "row, row, row your boat" in relation to a course in Maritime Tranport or Marine Engineering. The song can be a good ice breaker to introduce a topic in their course. The NTMA faculty showed their creativity and each group was able to write interesting alternative lyrics. Here is one example which is related to safety.