Facilitator: Julia K. Metzker
Date: 06 Oct 17, 2:30-4pm
Topic: Essential Learning Goals – Constructing learning goals that challenge, foster critical thinking, and prepare students to be successful global citizens.
Workshop Goals
- draw connections between your course and the essential learning outcomes
- write SCHMI course-level outcomes
On 06 Oct 17, participants in the second workshop in a five-part course design series, used the SCHMI model to write effective, measurable and inclusive learning outcomes for their courses.
<<download the handouts or review the presentation>>
NOTE: The concepts in this series will build over each workshop. The prezi will also evolve as we move through the series.
Reflect …
We began with a modified version of the DEAL reflection technique.
*Ash, S.L. & Clayton, P.H. (2009). Generating, Deepening, and Documenting Learning: The Power of Critical Reflection in Applied Learning. Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education. 1(1).
Learn …
Resources from workshop for developing learning outcomes:
- Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs) from AAC&U
- Hart Research Associates. (2015). Optimistic About the Future, But How Well Prepared? College Students’ Views on College Learning and Career Success – a survey conducted by Hart Research Associates.
- Nilson, L. B. (2009). The graphic syllabus and the outcomes map: Communicating your course (Vol. 137). John Wiley & Sons.
Hierarchical Learning Outcomes & Graphical Syllabi
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This handout gives a quick guide to organizing your outcomes using a hierarchical model and provides several examples.
- Profhacker has done a couple of posts on creative syllabi that might be of interest:
- http://www.chronicle.com/
blogs/profhacker/creative- syllabuses/42114 - http://www.chronicle.com/
blogs/profhacker/creative- approaches-to-the-syllabus/ 35621 - http://www.chronicle.com/
blogs/profhacker/graphic- display-of-student-learning- objectives/27863
SCHMI Framework (see handout for details)
- S – Student centered
- C – Concrete
- H – High-order
- M – Measurable
- I – Inclusive
Practice …
Before the next workshop …
- revise (or write) learning outcomes so they meet the SCHMI framework (Handout: p11)
- Think through how your discipline & course contribute to essential learning. (Handout: p12-13)