Each year, millions of students risk losing ground to the “summer slide”—a preventable drop in academic progress.

Welcome to part eight in our back-to-basics series on learning and development. This instalment revisits a core practice: learning outcomes and objectives. Getting this right helps you design training ...

Teacher training is usually accompanied by a number of educational theories. For example, Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy, which forms the basis of objective-based learning, seems perfectly coherent and ...

Required textbooks and tools Course overview and time-on-task analysis. Step 2: Designing engaging course content The next objective is to develop dynamic, interactive learning experiences. Content ...

In addition to the specific programming and software development skills that are taught and referenced by the learning objectives, there are also skills components of the employability pillars that ...

Learning and training The IAEA offers a wide spectrum of learning and training activities, as well as educational resources and capacity-building programmes. These include face-to-face training ...

In their book, Understanding by Design, Wiggins and McTighe (2005) offer a different course design framework called “Backward Design.” Backward Design has three stages. Stage 1 focuses on identifying ...

Nonetheless, while the numbers conveniently presented by Penn Course Review may help students determine a course plan that is manageable for them, it also shows a different trend. Penn students rate ...

A key aspect of course learning goals is that they are observable, so they can form the basis of the course’s assessment scheme; to this end, instructors tasked with crafting learning goals for a ...

The reason why soldiers may be learning only now that the 5-mile run is no longer a Basic Airborne Course graduation requirement is the Infantry School does not make formal announcements when it ...