Learning Outcomes and Backward Design - 0 views
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Mathieu Plourde on 18 May 15"Writing learning outcomes is very difficult for faculty who were never trained to think about their teaching in such terms. We are great at describing what content our course will cover; we are pretty good at knowing that we expect our students to master a certain amount of content or skill set by the end of the semester. We are terrible at framing our expectations for student learning in terms of learning outcomes, with all of our learning activities in the course aligned to those learning outcomes. We are even worse at measuring learning outcomes. We conflate grades with learning outcomes on the regular."