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OBE: The Restructuring Of American Society.
There has been a concern for some time throughout America regarding the
quality of public education. Students are graduating from highschool without
adequate knowledge of the three R's. Universities are recruiting a multitude of
incompetent pseudo-scholars. Employers don't understand w ....
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.... factor. This is very important in understanding what OBE is, and what
it intends to do. In the OBE classroom, every aspect of the curriculum is geared
toward achieving a small group of specific goals. To gain an insight into OBE,
it is necessary to learn something about its origins and those promoting it.
B. F. Skinner, a psychologist and learning theorist, developed the
techniques of learning (operant conditioning) based on conditioning phenomena
first analyzed scientifically by Pavlov. Skinner called his technique his
"teaching machine. ....
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