Why OBE must be reinvented

THE Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) has heralded the gospel of Outcomes-Based Education (OBE). In fact, it has given OBE mandatory character by refusing privileges and preferential classification to higher education institutions that do not tailor their courses and syllabi according to the precepts of OBE.

I was an ardent herald of OBE. And when the Cagayan State University sent me to Bangkok to take the course that would make us eligible for associate membership in the Asean University Network, it was OBE we actually studied. I championed the adoption of OBE in legal education and also in judicial education, but I have since, thankfully, become wiser. Now, I think that OBE has to be reinvented.