MAILING LISTS

One (of several) rules of thumb when it comes to generating learning 
goals that are useful to both students and instructors is that
"its all about the verbs".

In early parts of a course when material is factual and terminology must 
be learned, consider asking students to do something with their new 
facts. One of the more useful lists of verbs is at
http://cis.apsc.ubc.ca/wiki/index.php/Team-Based_Learning#
Click on "4.5 RAP Test Writing Support Materials", and find the link to 
a Word document called "Deep Questioning and Bloom's Taxonomy"

As for good examples of learning goals themselves - see a guidelines 
document developed by departments involved in the Science Education 
Initiatives at UBC and the University of Colorado. The link is
"Learning Goals/Objectives Examples" on the page at
http://www.cwsei.ubc.ca/resources/instructor_guidance.htm
These are not business related, but perhaps will provide some 
inspiration. Your students will love it if the early "dry" part of the 
course is enlivened by making them learn terminology by actually doing 
stuff.

Hope that helps - good luck.
Francis.


Bill Goffe wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone might have examples of unit objectives that
> they'd be willing to share or can point me to. I'm trying TBL for the
> first time in my Money and Banking class and I'm having a difficult time
> writing them. For example, the first obvious unit covers (i) what money is
> (ii) core concepts of financial markets (time has value, risk requires
> compensation, and so forth), and (iii) an introduction to financial
> instruments and markets. These are the first 3 chapters of the text.
> 
> The material is largely factual. It isn't entirely clear to me what that
> "doing" part should be here other than supply definitions. It seems easier
> to define "doing" in a math class; one might have "students will be able
> to integrate polynomials."
> 
>          - Bill
> 
> 

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