Writing sharp Learning Outcomes - Skill for Trainers

Writing sharp Learning Outcomes - Skill for Trainers

The course " Writing Effective Learning Outcomes" seeks to provide the learners skills on writing learning outcomes which focus on student's learning and evidence of learning through assessments. In traditional course design, the teachers or trainers usually start with the training content or syllabus and then devise the teaching activities and learning outcomes. In this case, most often, the learning outcomes are not focused and result in unaligned learning and lack of proper evidence of learning through assessments. Learning outcomes are not just statements of intent but also are critical roadmap for the other components of course design such as the content, assessments and teaching activities. This course brings out the details in consideration of these components and their appropriate alignment to ensure a high quality course design. This course is divided into lessons including the introduction, importance of learning outcomes, different levels of learning outcomes, use of bloom's taxonomy, backward design , structure and process of writing learning outcomes, practical implications of writing learning outcomes, assessments and aligning the course components.

This course is aimed at teachers, trainers, students of instructional design, elearning professionals who wish to gain the skills on writing effective learning outcomes and to understand the importance of this skill in training and course design.

Aligning the course components in course design through effective learning outcomes

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What you will learn

• How to write effective learning outcomes for courses and training programmes
• Why Sharp learning outcomes are important to improve the quality of training or teaching
• Ensure the students actually benefit by clear learning outcomes

Rating: 3.5

Level: All Levels

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Shanath Kumar