Aims of the course

It is very important to get a good idea of where this course is positioned and what the aims are for your course. What is the desired goal of your course?

As designers of learning environments for students it is important to specify:

• a.what we intend the students to learn,
• b.how we are going to deliver and support this learning, and
• c.how we satisfy ourselves and the institution that learning has occurred.

This section is concerned with defining aims and learning outcomes for learning and teaching, and addressing the integrated nature of learning outcomes and assessment.

Stating aims and learning outcomes has the following benefits;

1. they communicate the educational intent of the course / programme to students and to colleagues,
2. they help to direct course / programme design by addressing the learning needs of students,
3. they inform learning and teaching approaches appropriately,
4. they ensure that assessment is securely integrated,
5. they help to identify the resources needed to run the course / programme,
6. they provide a basis for quality assurance and enhancement.

The overall aims of your project will feed into the course aims and your overall learning outcomes. These will then feed into the learning outcomes for your sessions.

We find that once you've been able to scope out the learning outcomes for the course and mapout the content of the course it is a good time to also look at the quiz assesments for the BOC. The learning outcomes will help you to then roughly scope the quizzes and reinforce the learners understanding of the course content. We will look at quizzes later and how your learning outcomes should be reviewed.