564-2010-Objectives

Learning Objectives
Alignment of objectives with assessments with content

Mager's ABCD for writing objectives:
 * Audience - who is going to do? (e.g., students)
 * Behavior - what exactly are they going to do? (multiply two three-digit numbers)
 * Conditions - in what environment, with supports, or under what constraints must performance occur (e.g., without using a calculator)
 * Degree - what level of performance is deemed acceptable? (e.g., accurate 85% of the time)

The fascination with lists of B verbs, e.g., http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

Work Model Synthesis
"Gibbons described Work Model Synthesis as 'systematically combin[ing] and recombin[ing] tasks and objectives that through task analysis procedures have been fragmented at a low level.' Thus, work models are collections of individual objectives... that have been recombined into activities that real people perform in the real world, and therefore have value in the real world." From Learning Object Design and Sequencing Theory, Wiley, 2000.

TED Talk - Stein