What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? In 1956, Benjamin Bloom led a group of educational psychologists in defining the levels of intellectual behavior important to the learning process. They created a pyramid ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable course learning objectives. Course learning objectives are ...

Over the years, I have often heard faculty describe their role as creating an engaging learning environment, effectively delivering content, and instilling in students a “love of learning.” This ...

Learning outcomes explain what students should be able to achieve by the end of a course. This may be changes in their knowledge, skills, attitude or behaviors. Learning outcomes are the first element ...

In two preceding Fruits of Education columns, we described several tools for organizing training: the 6Ws, learning objectives, the creation and use of agendas, KSAs (knowledge, skills and abilities), ...

A teacher's didactic task begins some time before the semester starts (ideally when the previous semester ends), with teaching preparation. This planning phase -- used to develop a new course or ...

The researcher innovatively redefines educational objectives in the age of artificial intelligence in this novel study. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous in the 21 st century. Their ...