Education Development Unit

Learning Outcomes

"Learning outcomes: a systematic approach to course design" is a Discussion paper written by Dorothy Oakey, Bernard Lisewski and Jean Smith, Staff and Curriculum Development, EDU, University of Salford, March 2001

This paper is designed to provide academic practitioners with a brief background to the factors shaping the current emphasis in learning outcomes in programme design, assessment and delivery within higher education, and an introduction to both the writing of learning outcomes and to the principles of curriculum alignment.

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