Assessment of course quality, student learning, and professor effectiveness has become paramount in many of today’s universities and colleges. We seem always to strive for a better way to assess our ...

Learning objectives are statements that specify what students will know or be able to do as a result of earning their degrees. Effective objectives are usually expressed as knowledge, skills, or ...

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" ...

A learning objective is a statement that identifies knowledge, skills, or values that will improve participants' practice. They identify what a learner should know, be able to do, or value. Learning ...

Learning goals and learning objectives are the intended outcomes of a learning activity. The terms are often used interchangeably, but you may consider goals to be more general and objectives to be ...

Brief description of learning objective: Students will be able to describe the processes by which past and present societies have been created and perpetuated through their history, ideas and cultural ...

Last year, 27% of companies surveyed were spending more on training and development, and more than half were using eLearning or online training. And yet, 92% of executives can’t see the return on ...

Brief description of learning objective: Students will be critical consumers of information, able to engage in systematic research processes, frame questions, read critically, and apply observational ...

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 ...

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 ...