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In a post on workload management strategies for elearning, Christopher Sessums notes the following from Ragan & Terheggen

Start with a course development model
Define your objectives, learning outcomes, exit competencies, and an explanation of how the learning process will be evaluated.”By developing a course development model at the begining of the course authoring process, faculty members can avoid inconsistencies in content presentation, misapplication of technologies, and confusion regarding roles and responsibilities” (Ragan & Terheggen, 2003, p. 14).

Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog :: Notes on Workload Management Strategies for Online Educators

This to me is a restatement of Biggs’ ideas on Constructive Alignment for teaching in HE. My simple interpretation is that we need to start with what we want our students to have learnt - the Learning Outcome. This should then tell us how to appropriately assess the achievement of these outcomes. What we then teach is the final piece of the jigsaw so we have
Outcome > Assessment > Teaching
as the flow when designing learning activities.

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