somewhere else i'd rather be :~ something else i'd rather do :~

We are currently undergoing the unnecessary and redundant exercise of preparing module handbooks according to the OBE criteria. Initially there were 9 possible learning outcomes for university level study & sometime in Nov 2018 we had gone through an extensive exercise to update our module files, teaching notes, conduct an ISO-like audit and what-have-yous. Late last year the learning outcomes increased to 11 points with new attributes added. Woooohoooooooo!!!!

Our beloved Academic Leader prepared an oh-so-detailed checklist to amend the previous version that we did in December 2019. There were FORTY TWO items in the checklist. After the first draft was submitted in December, our AL reviewed the paperwork and had replied via return e-mail, listing the changes that need to be made. I did not understand the numerous instructions & had requested for a workshop. The workshop was legendary. We were given this checklist of 42 (maybe more) items to change/ update. WTF. Did it occur to anyone to do the workshop BEFORE we do the whole damn document?

So- I have been having this checklist staring at me for perhaps 2 weeks & I haven't been able to mentally process it. It was due yesterday, yet I cannot move. I will try to finish it today. I have found a quiet corner to work and damn it, it will be done (somehow, some way).

After this, I will seek psychiatric treatment.

P/S: Does it matter to anyone that the teaching content & even teaching methods essentially did not change much? How does this whole exercise making me a better lecturer? Or the organisation a better teaching provider? Or the students a better learner? [The answers will probably come to me once I have a breakthrough with the psychiatrist]