Uncapitalised ‘learning outcomes’: the tutor and student’s friend
It’s always a nice moment when you come across an article, conference paper, blog post, etc in which the author(s) expresses similar views on a topic to the ones that you’ve been stating for some time, particularly if those views are possibly not the most popular or common ones. It’s a nice moment because you feel a sense […]
Arguing against learning outcomes as a behaviourist learning approach
I have very recently discovered the wonder that is Scoop-it. This e-tool should supposedly save me the job of searching online to find any latest news/posts/pieces about learning outcomes in higher education (click here to check out my ‘Learning Outcomes’ scoop-it). So far it is doing a grand job and it was through my Scoop-it’s daily […]
Learning outcomes taken to the extreme: what not to hope for in HE
I came across this blog piece the other day: ‘Objectives versus outcomes’. I want to comment on it here because I think it reinforces, unintentionally, some of the concerns and worries that some scholars have concerning learning outcomes. I should state right off that the blog piece is not connected with an educational institution. Instead, it has […]
Learning outcomes in higher education: what’s being blogged?
Welcome to the first blog of the ‘Learning Outcomes’ project at the University of Leicester (UoL). Most people will be aware that there is currently much focus on developing, or further embedding, a learning outcomes approach in UK higher education (i.e. ‘By the end of this module, students will be able to…). This focus has […]
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