{"id":800,"date":"2013-11-04T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/?p=800"},"modified":"2013-11-04T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T01:06:07","slug":"learning-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/2013\/11\/04\/learning-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Outcomes:  Tools for&nbsp;You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/files\/2013\/11\/outcomeswordle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-809\" alt=\"outcomeswordle\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspire\/files\/2013\/11\/outcomeswordle-295x300.jpg\" width=\"236\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>OSU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/admin\/aa\/apaa\/academic-programs\/curriculum\/curricular-policies-and-procedures#116\">Curricular Policies and Procedures<\/a> specify that every course syllabus should include measurable student learning outcomes.\u00a0 The outcomes are defined as \u201clearner-focused statements reflecting what a student will be able to do as a result of an instructional activity. Each outcome statement should start with a measurable action verb that indicates the level of learning, followed by a precise description of the learned behavior, knowledge, or attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For guidance in developing learning outcomes, educators have long turned to <a href=\"http:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/teaching-guides\/pedagogical\/blooms-taxonomy\/\">Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy<\/a>, with its pyramid of cognitive levels.\u00a0 Two much newer tools can help you refine learning outcomes for a course or find learning activities and associated tech tools that will align with your course outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; On the Ecampus website, the interactive <a href=\"http:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/objectives-builder\/\">Objectives Builder<\/a>, created by James Basore, is a wonderful tool to assist in writing learning outcomes.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to use and can do wonders if you\u2019re grappling with learning-outcome-writer\u2019s block!<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Allen Carrington\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unity.net.au\/allansportfolio\/edublog\/?p=874\">Padagogy Wheel<\/a> has hot links to 63 iPad apps, many of which exist in forms for other mobile platforms as well.\u00a0 Each app is arranged on a wheel to align with learning activities that could be done with the particular app, related action verbs, and the corresponding cognitive domains from Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy.\u00a0 Brilliant . . . give it a try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSU\u2019s Curricular Policies and Procedures specify that every course syllabus should include measurable student learning outcomes.\u00a0 The outcomes are defined as \u201clearner-focused statements reflecting what a student will be able to do as a result of an instructional activity. Each outcome statement should start with a measurable action verb that indicates the level of learning, followed by a precise description of the learned behavior, knowledge, or attitude.\u201d For guidance in developing learning outcomes, educators have long turned to Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy, with its pyramid of cognitive levels.\u00a0 Two much newer tools can help you refine learning outcomes for a course or find learning activities and associated tech tools that will align with your course outcomes. 1 &#8211; On the Ecampus website, <a href=\"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/2013\/11\/04\/learning-outcomes\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Learning Outcomes:  Tools for&nbsp;You<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[53,86,263],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-tools-trends","tag-apps","tag-blooms-taxonomy","tag-learning-outcomes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/inspire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}