Interprofessional education (IPE) aims to improve patient outcomes and the quality of care. Interprofessional learning outcomes and interprofessional competencies are now included in many countries' health and social care professions' accreditation standards. While IPE may take place at any time in health professions curricula it tends to focus on…

Higher education institutions are introducing standardised electronic course profiles (ECPs) to advance quality outcomes. Involving both "message" and "medium", they alter traditional practice and interpretations. Critical examination is required of the values, presuppositions and operation of the nascent system. Lacking much…

The Provost at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York requested that a new college committee investigate the feasibility of creating and offering blended courses along with the typical face-to-face courses and the fully online courses. An instructional design model is used to discuss and analyze one faculty member's journey through the…

Outlines an approach for introducing students to Community Social Work by use of clear, engaging stated objectives. Approach is called the Learning Circle and was devised as a tool to enhance student participation and to stimulate networking, dialogue and conversation about social work commitment to community intervention and community-based…

Our 5-year experiment with teaching and evaluating an inquiry course has led us to conclude that inquiry is a potent pedagogical tool in higher education, encouraging students to become self-directed and engaged learners. This article offers key ingredients and procedures for designing an inquiry-based course. It provides a pragmatic model of…

Although not all instructional goals can be expressed as behavioral objectives, most of them should be. Behavioral objectives are advantageous because they (a) aid in communicating instructional goals, (b) provide direction for teachers, (c) provide motivation and direction for students, (d) facilitate identification of prerequisite knowledge or…

In the current trend toward improvement of instruction and accountability, the writing of objectives has become an almost universal requirement. Objectives, in fact, may be at a general, specific, or competency level, but it is impossible to begin to write any of these until a course configuration (format) has been developed. Construction of a…

A discussion of educational design with emphasis on development of behaviorally stated objectives for a course. (JT)

The author explains the need for validation in instructional television, citing his experiences with the ITV mathematics series, "It Figures," in Dade County Florida. He also describes in some detail the application of validation to the development of a television series, discussing such items as the specification of behavioral…

Systematic analyses of instructional objectives are requested more and more in educational contexts, but there is little agreement about what such analyses are and what value they have. A few possible criteria for goal analyses are outlined and illustrated: empiricism and comprehensiveness in seeking information, firm rules for decision-making on…

Argues that objectives are indispensable in planning an educative environment. Examines the "process model" which shuns curricular objectives, because they restrict children's inquiry. Proposes a method which recognizes the necessity of objectives while avoiding the restrictions on children's freedom which those restrictions often impose. (GEA)

Reviews instructional design models; discusses characteristics of distance education in higher education via interactive television; and presents a nine-step instructional design model designed specifically for college course delivery via interactive television. Course goals, content analysis, performance objectives, learner characteristics,…

Instructional objectives developed by Direct Patron Access to Computer-Based Reference Systems Committee, American Library Association, are designed to facilitate library instruction where online systems are used directly by patrons, and intended for librarians who are devising instructional programs for online systems in school, special, public,…

The California Education Code requires school boards to "establish standards of expected pupil achievement at each grade level in each area of study" and to consider student progress when evaluating teachers. The guidelines in this document have been prepared to help superintendents, principals, and teachers take steps to meet these…

This series of self-instructional booklets is designed to assist teachers in improving their instructional effectiveness by (1) breaking course activities into short segments, enabling each learner to proceed at his own pace; (2) monitoring learner achievement after completion of each segment of the course; and (3) revising each instructional…