Creating a fulfilling course is like planning a trip. You need to know where you are going. Good courses begin with a plan that identifies goals and intended outcomes. Yet a lot of instructors creating courses only pay lip service to the goals they list in their syllabi. Let’s take a look at the course goals, learning objectives, and learning outcomes.
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Together, goals, objectives, and outcomes guide course planning. They clarify what the course includes and excludes.
Goals and outcomes describe broad aspects of behavior. They indicate what students will learn as well as what they have learned and how well.
Learning objectives translate course goals into specific actions. They describe what students should be able to demonstrate.
In this episode, we will explore how these elements work together to guide course design.
Additional Reading
- ITC: 41 – Using Backward Design to Build Better Courses
- ITC: 65 – Using the ESIL Lens to Determine What Is Essential and Relevant
- How a Course Map Puts You on Track for Better Learning Outcomes
- Writing Course Goals/Learning Outcomes and Learning Objectives
- Writing Course Goals and Learning Objectives
- Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Write Effective Learning Objectives
- Writing Student Learning Outcomes
- Designing Meaningful and Measurable Outcomes: A First Step in Backwards Design
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