The Quality Assurance Department in the colleges held a workshop on how to formulate the course learning outcomes on Tuesday 11/2022 at 1:00 p.m. in the Office of the Quality Unit at the College of Engineering and Information Technology, in the presence of:

• Director of Quality Assurance Department.
• Assistant Director of Quality Assurance Department.
• Director of the Quality Unit at the College of Engineering and Information Technology.
• Deputy Director of the Quality Unit at the College of Engineering and Information Technology.
• Assistant Director of the Quality Unit at the College of Engineering and Information Technology - Female Section.
• Director of the Quality Unit at the College of Humanities and Administrative Studies.
• Assistant Director of the Quality Unit at the College of Humanities and Administrative Studies - Female Section.

His Excellency Dr. Bandar Al-Mutairi, Director of the Quality Assurance Department in the colleges, began his speech with the importance and sensitivity of the next stage. His Excellency thanked the deans and vice deans of the colleges, program directors, their assistants, and faculty members for their cooperation and for their efforts in preparing all the required files in preparation for the visit of the National Center for the Evaluation of Private Higher Education. His Excellency also explained the importance of reformulating the learning outcomes of the courses in both colleges, which are 380 courses, which represent the main pillar in the quality processes. His Excellency reviewed the most important and best international practices in formulating the learning outcomes of the courses (verb + content + purpose). At the end of the workshop, His Excellency instructed the quality units to set a schedule for holding workshops at the unit level with the academic program managers, and then the program managers will hold workshops for faculty members to discuss how to formulate the learning outcomes for their courses within a maximum period of two weeks from its date. He also recommended the units to introduce the new members to how to link the course outputs with the program outputs in order to facilitate understanding of the process of formulating the outputs on the new system and thus reduce the percentage of potential errors during the drafting processes and increase awareness of the quality process.

Workshop Objectives:

1. Introducing the directors, deputies and assistants of the quality units in the faculties to the first stage of the stages of controlling course outcomes.
2. Introducing the directors, deputies and assistants of the quality units in the faculties of how to formulate the learning outcomes for the academic courses.
3. Training members on how to formulate course outcomes on the new system.

Recommendations:

1. Holding workshops that bring together academic program managers and college quality committees to introduce them to how to formulate outputs on the new system.
2. Holding workshops on formulating course outputs at the level of quality units in both colleges.
3. Each program director should hold workshops with program members to familiarize them with how to formulate course learning outcomes.