When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable course learning objectives. Course learning objectives are ...

It is easy to view the task of drafting learning objectives as a mere administrative hurdle—one more box to check for a syllabus or a department review. However, when we move beyond the "paperwork" ...

Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

Bloom’s original Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (1956) and the Revised Taxonomy (Anderson et al., 2001) outline frameworks for educators to think about and write learning objectives: As technology ...

I always loved getting cotton candy when I went to the Firemen’s Carnival as a kid. But as huge as that pink ball appeared, it was all just fluff. Lately, following what many of our colleagues have ...

We are closing in on the end of February in the leap year. We have an extra day to meet our personal and professional 2024 objectives. Let’s use it wisely. One of the objectives in our action files is ...

Rick: A lot of parents and educators may be familiar with the phrase “mastery learning” but not have a clear idea what it means in practice. What is it exactly? Scott: My journey began in 2012 when I ...