First Step in Course Planning: Writing Effective Learning Objectives

Kun Huang — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:52:03 PDT

A well-planned course begins with effective learning objectives that are well aligned with learning activities and assessments. This workshop targets writing learning objectives for medical and health science education. It provides a big picture of the role of learning objectives in a course, as well as the techniques in writing effective, measurable objectives. Example objectives are presented, and the ways to improve them are discussed.

Course Design and Redesign

Christine Savi et al. — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:44:34 PST

This is the PowerPoint used in a workshop offered by the Center for Learning & Development at the UNT Health Science Center. The workshop provides the insights into the design of course syllabus, learning activities, and assessment measures that cultivate students’ higher order thinking.