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Learning Outcomes

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For your assignment, we will ask you to write 2-3 Learning Outcomes to represent your course. To keep the task manageable, this will usually just be a sample of your Learning Outcomes, not all of them.

Remember that Learning Outcomes need to be SMART, use an action verb which is aligned to Bloom’s taxonomy, and describe knowledge, skills and abilities that learners should be able to demonstrate once they have completed the course. According to the principle of backwards design, it is important to define the Learning Outcomes at an early stage in your design process. Your plans for assessment, activity design and evaluation will then refer back to the Learning Outcomes.

Please check the Learning Outcomes step in week 1 to remind yourself of how to write effective Learning Outcomes.

You can use the discussion section to ask questions about writing Learning Outcomes and integrating them in to your assignment.

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