A national workshop about Mapping Learning Outcomes and ECTS calculation

On February 2, 2020, the Dentistry Faculty of TIU organized a workshop under the title of ”Mapping learning outcomes and ECTS calculation’’ in the Dentistry building for the academic staff to help them in designing their course catalog (syllabus) according to the Bologna process.

The workshop was presented by Dr.Ranj Nadhim Jalal (Ph.D.), teaching staff member of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department-Dentistry Faculty-TIU.

20 members of the academic staff of dentistry faculty of TIU and a few from Hawler Medical University participated in the workshop which was composed of two sessions:

· A Brief Introduction of the ECTS and learning outcomes.

· Hands-on training regarding formulating the learning outcomes according to Bloom’s taxonomy and counting ECTS)

The Objectives of the workshop were defining the learning outcomes, learning how to design the assessment tools according to learning outcomes and calculating the ECTS.