Towards a sustainable outcomes-based education guided by knowledge management system: expoleIT design and development roadmap

Knowledge management (KM) is the most significant element for innovation and sustainability. Successful outcomes-based education (OBE) adoption requires sustainable quality practices including careful planning and active collaboration among stakeholders by higher education institutions (HEIs). Decomposed from the problems, the design parameters of a knowledge management system (KMS) incorporate the arrangement and use of a messaging module utilized for imparting and spreading information to an organization; authoring, evaluation, and profiling modules utilized for a collaborative advancement and dispersal of information; and a digital library and an academic profiling module utilized for storing, retrieving and mining the institutional OBE knowledge. Essentially, to develop the HEI’s KM practices, the KMS framework was intended to enlighten the stakeholders on whose knowledge, what sort of knowledge, how, and why they need to oversee OBE knowledge. Given the ISO 9241-11 norm, the expoleIT website was effective, efficient, and acknowledged by the participants in their specific set of purposes. The participants need more time to adapt to the system and some of the stakeholders are novice users in using this kind of system. The institution shall start its journey to curriculum excellence with this roadmap as it hit the road with its OBE implementation activities. While data mining techniques, like decision trees, can improve curriculum development in higher education, future work includes incorporating it into the website to help teachers and trainers in constructive alignment when building an OBE syllabus. Likewise, when grouping students for capstone projects and other activities.