Objectives

Abstract: The first step in the design process of a module is to specify the objectives or what it is a successful learner will be able to do after completing the module. This particular module breaks an objective up into three key elements:

  1. performance,
  2. conditions, and
  3. criterion.

Definitions of each are given along with examples and exercises that enable you to analyze the objectives provided as well as one that you create.


Estimated Time to Complete: 15 minutes


Prerequisite: Getting Started

This is the first of five modules in the systematic design of modular instruction:

Objectives
  • Criterion Test Items
  • Prerequisites
  • Sequencing of Instruction and Selection of Media
  • Pilot Testing and Revision of the Module


    Target Audience: Faculty, TAs, faculty developers, instructional designers, educational administrators or anyone who would like to be able to identify three key elements of a learning objective that could be used not only in modular teaching but in any teaching and learning situation.


    Name of the author of the module and her collaborators:

    Elizabeth Campbell, Instructional Designer, Centre for e-Learning, University of Ottawa
    Patricia Ambroise, Web Developer, Centre for e-Learning, University of Ottawa
    Steve Rokeby, Graphic Artist, Centre for e-Learning, University of Ottawa