Mount Royal College’s College-Wide Learning Outcomes Initiative Phase 2: Building on Teaching Strengths and Empowering Postsecondary learners

This has involved:

1. Further clarifying what the six learning outcomes the College has embraced actually look like in practice.
2. Drafting a strategic plan to promote awareness and knowledge of identified learning outcomes among students, full-time and part-time faculty.
3. Produce a Faculty Information Package which includes a literature review of the common rationale for adopting outcome-based teaching and learning models at post-secondary institutions across North America.
4. Producing a workbook to help faculty create course outlines with learning outcomes.

This case study looks at the:

• objectives;
• activities;
• resources required;
• achievements;
• benefits;
• keys to success; and
• greatest challenge.