Module 2: Aims

Aims

As participants you will consider an online course you are creating or revising, and work in this module to

• begin reflecting on your course by drafting a "significant outcomes statement" as a way to surface your "big picture" teaching goals for the course you are developing,
• review key resources regarding setting student learning aims (aka outcomes or objectives), and
• create and share at least two student learning aim for that course.

You'll share the statements and aims in this module's first discussion forum during the week of 21-27 October.

Resources

• Reading: Setting Significant Outcomes Download Setting Significant Outcomes
  - What do you want to be the "Ideal Impact" of your course? In creating this statement, as Goodson and Nilson note, we make known "a meaningful destination" that "will have lasting value for the students," and that we can draw on in making course design decisions. 
• Reading with Resources: Developing Aims - An Overview Links to an external site., a 3-page document with links to a video and curated set of print resource addressing ultimate, mediating, and foundational aims, as well as links to two aims-writing resources,
•  Slidedeck with Examples: Learning Aims Links to an external site. - a collection of pre- and post-revision aims.

Webinar Resources