What do we need objectives for?
- Help learners to focus
- Help course developers/ designers to focus
- Development of assessment
- Development of instructional material
- choosing content, media, tactics
- choosing strategies
- Development of evaluation of the training/educational project
- Communicating about the project, externally and internally
The elements of objectives
- Performance
- Conditions
- Criterion
After this lesson:
- W-shop participants should be able to write down objectives for a training ...
- ... after having done content analysis and with access to any materials from WirEd or elsewhere + lecturers to give advice
- The objectives will include at least performance and condition. Preferably also criterion
Reasonable
objectives I: The problem of relevance
Developing the objectives so they will be measurable, creates a conflict between
- precision
in the measurement of weather an objective has been achieved
- relevance
of objectives for their purposes
Reasonable
objectives II: The problem of complexity
Goals:
Objectives:
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