Training Design - Learning Objectives & Outcomes
Learning objectives are central to designing a training course. They must reflect your needs assessment results and work in harmony with your training methods and design. Use these documents to help you write learning objectives that reflect the needs of your target learners.
- Core Concepts of Training: Creating Learning Objectives
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A worksheet for developing thoughtful learning objective statements. The worksheet guides you through the process of writing a well-stated objective, identifying the learning domain, and analysing and improving the statement based on helpful guidelines.
- Core Concepts of Training: Verbs for Writing Learning Objectives
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A list of suggested verbs that are helpful when writing learning objectives. The verbs are categorised by the type of objective you want your learners to master. Here are the categories, with examples: Facts (record, label), understanding (describe, express), application (compute, apply), synthesis (diagnose, plan), attitude (show sensitivity, respect opinions), and skill (show, take).
- Designing Learning Outcomes
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This informational handout provides an overview of how to develop learning outcomes. It includes basic steps to help you develop learning outcomes and a built-in worksheet to help you as you design a curriculum. The tool emphasises that learning outcomes should be crafted in clear language, identify important learning requirements, be assessable, and be written in the future tense. Once you use this tool, you will better understand your goals for your students and how they can best achieve them.