From the course: Teaching Techniques: Writing Effective Learning Objectives

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Visualization of the learning and assessment cycle

Visualization of the learning and assessment cycle

- Aligning your course learning objectives gives you multiple advantages. A clear connection for the learner, a metric for you to pinpoint what's working and not working and a starting point for creating new courses. There's a correlation between all of these elements. I'll try to visualize this for you. So here we have the learner and the content creator, who is generally the instructor, the learning objectives, the course assessment and the course content. From the perspective of the learner, they want to know what's in it for them. They also want to know how they'll be measured on their progress in the course. From the perspective of the content creator, did the learner successfully learn? Which parts of the course, if any, did they have trouble with? Which parts of the course worked well? Is the content clear and concise and does it convey the intended knowledge? Where do the learning objectives fit in? They help the instructor focus the course content on the expected outcomes…

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