Imagine the following situation: you are holding a course of lectures, carefully explaining all the terms and definitions and providing your students with learning material every week. Some students are always well prepared and have questions to ask when they come to the lectures. Others only seem to learn what is absolutely necessary. Why is that? And what can you do so that as many students as possible learn in depth? One approach is known as constructive alignment.
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When formulating intended learning outcomes, many people think of Bloom’s taxonomy or language exercises that tend to be quite boring. This blog post shows that intended learning outcomes in the academic arena involve much…