Programme Design for Fouryear Curriculum Benchmarking with Other Universities Worldwide

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Programme Design for Four-year Curriculum
Benchmarking with Other Universities Worldwide
A Discussion on
Jian R. Sun, Ph.D. (???) ???????????? Educational
Development Centre The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University
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Discussion Focus

• Benchmarking in OBA Role Defined
• Levels of Benchmarking
• Some Challenges

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Benchmarking Defined

• processes and results that represent best
  practices and performance for similar activities,
  inside or outside the education community to
  understand the current dimensions of world-class
  performance and to achieve discontinuous
  (nonincremental) or breakthrough improvement.
• (Baldridge National Quality Program, 2007)

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Role Defined

• Benchmarking provides WHAT and HOW
• A tool to enhance own operation
• A process to assure quality
• A piece of evidence to justify achievement and
  quality

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Levels of Benchmarking

• Levels by unit types institution vs. programme
• Levels by focus general vs. specific
• Levels by benchmarked compatible vs.
  in-compatible

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Benchmarking How

• Objectives and Scope of Efforts
• Institutional support
• Benchmarking approach
• Benchmarking partners
• Info gathering
• Dissemination of what has been learned
• Selection of ideas for implementation
• Piloting
• implementation

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Some Challenges in Benchmarking

• Geological location consideration HK
  benchmarking with whom?
• Resources support Absence of IR?
• Priority Focus for benchmarking with OBA?

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References

• Insights to Performance Excellence in Education
  An Insight Look at the 2001 Baldridge Award
  Criteria for Education , ASQ Quality Press, USA
  (2001)
• Competing on Analytics The New Science of
  Winning, Harvard Business School, USA (2007)
• Education Criteria for Performance Excellence,
  Baldridge National Quality Program, USA (2007)