Having good learning goals (also called "learning objectives" or "learning outcomes") is key to taking an evidence-based approach to education. This means faculty members laying out learning goals for ...

When we think about professional and personal development, we usually think about taking courses, reading self-help books, attending professional training, having a mentor, etc. These often come into ...

(This is the final post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here; Part Two here and Part Three here.) The new “question-of-the-week” is: How can we use goal-setting with our students? In Part ...

Over the two and a half years I served as Maine’s Commissioner of Education, I visited schools all over my state, and those visits followed a fairly standard pattern. I would be greeted at the ...

Each activity will start with a list of learning outcomes and goals. Learning outcomes tell students what they need to be able to master in order to succeed on exams and homework. Learning goals tell ...

In the last 30 years, a series of innovative findings in neuroscience, metacognition, and learning have inexorably changed how we think about educating students. The notions that learning is ...

Michigan Tech no longer has university-wide learning goals. Launching in Fall 2025, the Essential Ed program will replace the general education curriculum used by Michigan Tech undergraduates since ...

Residential Living is organized around the idea that learning happens beyond the classroom. In order to make this learning intentional and meaningful, we developed learning goals and outcomes to guide ...

Develop an understanding of the following theoretical foundations of astronomy with special emphasis on: Stellar Evolution Planetary Astronomy Orbital Mechanics Special and General Relativity Develop ...