{"id":21162,"date":"2018-06-26T08:16:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=21162"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:29:41","slug":"learning-outcomes-blueprints-for-course-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2018\/learning-outcomes-blueprints-for-course-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Outcomes: Blueprints for Course Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Learning Outcomes: Blueprints for Course Design\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Most simply defined, learning outcomes describe what learners are supposed to know, be able to do, or value at the end of a course or module. They should direct your course, but they also guide students \u2013 they are written from the students\u2019 perspective and include action verbs. They tell students what the course priorities are and that they are responsible for actively pursuing these priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us at the EDC on July 13 from 9 a.m. &#8211; noon for a workshop that will provide you with the tools to develop clear and measurable learning outcomes.&nbsp;At the end of this session, you will be able to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Explain the relationship between learning outcomes and course design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose questions\/criteria to consider when determining learning outcomes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apply Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy of educational objectives to write learning outcomes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evaluate learning outcomes for clarity, demonstrability and appropriateness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/cu_event\/learning-outcomes-blueprints-for-course-design\/\">Register here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most simply defined, learning outcomes describe what learners are supposed to know, be able to do, or value at the end of a course or module. They should direct your course, but they also guide students \u2013 they are written from the students\u2019 perspective and include action verbs. They tell students what the course priorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39980,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162\/revisions\/39980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}