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Against a background of increased globalization in education, and paralleling credit transfer initiatives and commodification of post-secondary education, there has been a trend (in the UK, Europe, Australia, and Canada, to name a few) towards the broad implementation of learning outcomes in post-secondary education. While the specifics vary, in general these outcomes are intended to articulate the quality of education an institution provides its students and what might be expected of these students once they graduate. This chapter is not a summary of the details of those initiatives; others (see Goff, this volume; Hubball, Gold, Mighty, & Britnell, 2007; Kehm, 2010; Nicholson, 2011) have done an admirable job in that regard.
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Simmons, N. (2013). Outcomes of Learning. In: Kompf, M., Denicolo, P.M. (eds) Critical Issues in Higher Education. Critical Issues in The Future of Learning and Teaching, vol 8. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-046-0_7
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