Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
It’s really helpful to have a plan when you create a new course or curriculum. In this video, I break things down into learning goals, learning activities, and learning assessments, with tips on how to create each one as you build out your course.
It does take a little bit of elbow grease (Pen ink? Computer batter power?) to lay out a framework for a new curriculum, but having a strong foundation is really important for interpreting how your students are doing and how to improve the course in the future.
00:00 Introduction
00:30 The three things you need.
01:20 Learning goals
06:35 Learning activities
08:20 Learning assessments
11:15 Two extra questions
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Example learning goals with linked activities:
I. Be able to identify each of the component parts of the major mammalian
organ systems (and state their functions) from images and specimens. (GOAL)
- Activity 1: Read chapters 1-3
- Activity 2 | Assessment 1: Easy image quiz
- Activity 3 | Assessment 2: Specimen image matching activity
- Activity 4 | Assessment 3: Difficult specimen quiz
- Assessment 4: Unit test (sample of 15 images; 5 samples)
II. For each organ, be able to explain how that organ interacts with other organs, which other organs that organ and what happens as the result of the interaction. (GOAL)
- Activity 1: Group presentations on specific organs
- Activity 2: Organ-mapping exercise
- Activity 3 | Assessment 1: Three situation-problems (animal eats something poisonous, animal gives birth, etc.)
- Assessment 2: Unit test (sample of 3 organs)
It’s really helpful to have a plan when you create a new course or curriculum. In this video, I break things down into learning goals, learning activities, and learning assessments, with tips on how to create each one as you build out your course.
It does take a little bit of elbow grease (Pen ink? Computer batter power?) to lay out a framework for a new curriculum, but having a strong foundation is really important for interpreting how your students are doing and how to improve the course in the future.
00:00 Introduction
00:30 The three things you need.
01:20 Learning goals
06:35 Learning activities
08:20 Learning assessments
11:15 Two extra questions
For more videos on learning, check out my learning community: benjaminkeep.com/community
Sign up to my email newsletter, Avoiding Folly, here: benjaminkeep.com
Example learning goals with linked activities:
I. Be able to identify each of the component parts of the major mammalian
organ systems (and state their functions) from images and specimens. (GOAL)
- Activity 1: Read chapters 1-3
- Activity 2 | Assessment 1: Easy image quiz
- Activity 3 | Assessment 2: Specimen image matching activity
- Activity 4 | Assessment 3: Difficult specimen quiz
- Assessment 4: Unit test (sample of 15 images; 5 samples)
II. For each organ, be able to explain how that organ interacts with other organs, which other organs that organ and what happens as the result of the interaction. (GOAL)
- Activity 1: Group presentations on specific organs
- Activity 2: Organ-mapping exercise
- Activity 3 | Assessment 1: Three situation-problems (animal eats something poisonous, animal gives birth, etc.)
- Assessment 2: Unit test (sample of 3 organs)
