Teaching Tip: Ways to improve learning objectives

October 12, 2015

Marissa Carl

word cloud of active wordsLearning objectives are often overlooked because they aren’t well-written. Selecting active words — like "record," "identify" and "diagram" — to describe your expectations can help students succeed and help you plan activities and assessments to fulfill those objectives.

Locate more resources to improve learning objectives in the full Teaching Tip: http://elearning.uaf.edu/go/tt-learning-objectives.

— Teaching Tip by Heidi Olson, learning design coordinator at UAF eLearning, who has more than 25 years of distance and online experience in higher education as an instructional designer and adjunct instructor.