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Learning objectives: Our frenemy

Making Change

“Never design anything without first writing the learning objectives.” It’s a useful rule, but only when the objectives are useful. And there’s the problem — conventional learning objectives can work against us. What do I mean by “conventional learning objectives?

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Learning Objectives: Who Cares?

Innovative Learning Group

What Really Matters When Documenting Course Goals When I started in the world of L&D, one of the biggest shocks I had was the battle over the learning objective. I had moved from my life as a small-town newspaper reporter to a supporting role on an e-learning development team. But now I find myself wondering, “Who cares?”

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Learning objectives: Our frenemy

Making Change

By Cathy Moore “Never design anything without first writing the learning objectives.” It’s a useful rule, but only when the objectives are useful. And there’s the problem — conventional learning objectives can work against us. “But the other statements are good objectives!”

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How to Make Sure Your Course Meets Its Learning Objectives

CourseArc

.” They follow rules, theories, or laws governing the objectives they espouse, and they measure the outcomes of their efforts against those objectives. Instructional designers are guided by these same types of parameters when ensuring their courses meet specific learning objectives. B = Behavior.

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INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN BASICS – GOALS

Learnnovators

Earl Nightingale This is true not just at work and in life, but also in instructional design. These we’ll refer to as learning, or performance, outcomes. Here’s a likely conversation that might happen between you (the instructional designer) and your stakeholder. We’ll call these business goals.

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Chunking Information to Design eLearning

B Online Learning

This blog post covers a recent online conversation I had with an attendee at one of our eLearning Design Essentials workshops. Chunking refers to the strategy of breaking down information into bite-sized pieces so that human brain can easily digest the new information. One of the ways we achieve this is through ‘chunking’.

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How to Identify a Good eLearning Development Company for Custom Solutions

IT Training Department Blog

You could even seek out a generalist or perhaps a specialist instructional designer ! If you only go into industry specialists, you could end up with a subject matter expert (SME) rather than an eLearning developer or instructional designer. Not only that, is eLearning even the right solution for your problem?