Course Outline From Outcomes
Writes outcomes as observable actions before selecting any content, so the course is built to a destination.
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Running it, start to finish
- Write outcomes as things a learner can do.
- Design the assessment for each before selecting content.
- Cut content that does not serve a surviving outcome.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Rewrites outcomes as observable actions, rejecting ones that cannot be assessed.
- Designs assessment before content, preventing material taught but never assessed.
- Names what to cut, since courses bloat from available material rather than from need.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Ban the word understand. It cannot be observed, so a course with it as an outcome has no way to know whether it worked.
- Cut the outcome list hard. Four outcomes delivered beats eleven covered, and the second is what most course plans start as.
- Plan for the drop-out points. After the first session and at the first hard part. An early real success and an honest warning both help materially.
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