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How to Set Proper Learning Objectives

CourseArc

As celebrated inspirational speaker, coach, and author Ben Gay III once said: “No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination.” Instructional designers can leverage Bloom’s Taxonomy to produce good learning objectives. Thoughts Behind Setting Learning Objectives.

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Use Your Learning Goals to Bring Balance to Your Training Programs 3/3:Synthesis and Evaluation

CrossKnowledge

Mapping skills acquisition into six levels, Bloom’s Taxonomy is a favorite tool among trainers to help them design their learning programs. L&D managers and instructional designers use Bloom’s Taxonomy to measure skills acquisition and tailor the learning targets of their programs to learners’ needs.

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Training vs. Learning: How Are They Different?

eLearningMind

Bloom’s taxonomy divides the learning process into six levels of cognitive processes that the student goes through when learning. This taxonomy is useful in the workplace as it guides educators to develop training programs that are easy to learn from and therefore achieve better outcomes. Cognitively speaking, what is learning?

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Top 5 Performance Support Apps for Learning Designers

Learnnovators

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy’ App. The Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy app (from Orion Beadling) is a reference tool for instructional designers on the core elements of Bloom’s revised taxonomy. The app is available for free download on Google Play. The app is available for free download on Google Play.

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Top 113 eLearning Posts and 28 Hottest Topics for 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

10 Ways To Learn In 2010 - The eLearning Coach , January 3, 2010. Taxonomy of Learning Theories - E-Learning Provocateur , January 12, 2010. 10 Unusual Sources Of Inspiration for eLearning - The eLearning Coach , September 29, 2010. Definition of an E-Learning Curve – Bloom’s Taxonomy - The E-Learning Curve , February 4, 2010.

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Designing An iPhone App: Instructional Design Guru

The eLearning Coach

The inspiration for this occurred one day when I was writing a design document and needed a verb for a learning objective from Bloom’s taxonomy. Feeling lazy, it seemed as though it would be so easy to just look up the taxonomy on my mobile device. I went to iTunes and couldn’t find any app like this. Not even close.

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Writing Learning Objectives—Part 2

The eLearning Coach

Bloom’s Taxonomy. I really can’t end a discussion on learning objectives without doing you the favor of mentioning Bloom’s Taxonomy. When you are pulling out your hair fishing for action verbs, Benjamin Bloom, the educational psychologist, will come to your rescue. © Connie Malamed 2009.