Theme: "Learning Outcomes, or: Less is More"
Learning Outcomes: After today's session, librarians will be able to:
- Write effective, targeted learning outcomes for instruction sessions in order to focus the content of their sessions on students’ research needs.
- Distill the many possible learning outcomes for an instruction session into one or two essential learning outcomes in order to construct an instruction session that maximizes student learning.
Activities:
- Discuss what a learning outcome is, how it's written, what it does and describes.
- Emphasize the importance of limiting the number of outcomes for a session: less is more!
- Group activity: Imagine you've gotten the following request from a faculty member: "Can you show my students how to find peer-reviewed journal articles?" What learning outcome(s) would you write for this scenario, for a 50-minute session? For a 75-minute session?
- Individual activity: Think of a specific request from your experience and write learning outcome(s) for that scenario. We'll compare results and discuss.
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