Identifying course goals and learning objectives
The learning objectives for a course correspond to the measurable performance that you would like your students to be able to accomplish by the end of the course. Course goals and learning objectives are often used interchangeably, although technically speaking, they should not be. Learning outcomes are statements that describe the knowledge or skills students should acquire by the end of a particular assignment, class, course, or program, helping students understand why that knowledge and those skills will be useful to them.
Learning objectives are similar to goal statements, but they are more specific and often relate to Bloom's taxonomy. They describe what students will be able to do by the end of a learning activity, using verbs that relate to cognitive levels:
- They are specific and measurable.
- They are student-centric.
- The verbs correlate to a hierarchy of cognitive skills, such as Bloom's taxonomy...
