An Outcome-Based Online Educational Framework (E-Shikhshan) for Quality Accreditation

It is now widely recognized that the graduates pursuing education will need to demonstrate mastery over knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for the ever-transforming job market. To assure skill development as per the market requirement, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India conceived the Pedagogy Project under “National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT)” which was sponsored by the “Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)”, GOI in 2013. Under this project, a collaborative web-based framework has been developed for developing, monitoring, sharing and administering outcome-based learning. The various modules under the framework have been discussed in detail with relevant illustrations provided at suitable spaces. The paper emphasizes the development of this online framework “E-Shikhshan” keeping in mind the concepts of accreditation and principles of self-learning pedagogy. The paper also describes how this tool can be used for implementing accreditation in classroom. It is expected that the paper will serve as a template for other institutions to either adopt or simulate the framework to meet their quality assurance objectives.