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Establish learning outcomes

Establish learning outcomes

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Establish learning outcomes

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- [Instructor] When designing any course, it's extremely important to establish learning outcomes. In other words, what is it that you want your learners to learn in your course, and how will you know that they successfully mastered the content? Like other guidelines and expectations, make sure that these learning outcomes are easy to find and easy to understand for the learners. Here are a few tips to consider when writing learning outcomes for your online course. First, don't create too many. Five to eight learning outcomes should be sufficient for your course. Be sure that these course outcomes align with the overall curriculum. Also, make sure that they're well-written and easy to understand. Each outcome should include who needs to accomplish it and what it is that they need to accomplish. You can do this by selecting appropriate action verbs that are observable and measurable in order to determine whether the…

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