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We are still working on the development of learning objectives for the VITAE course. As a starting point I imagined what the ideal course would look like and extracted learning objectives from that vision but that gave a set of learning objectives which were too tied to the structure of the course that I had envisaged. It needed to be more flexible. So the next step was recognising that what we want our participants to learn consists of some technical mastery, some pedagogical insights and the need to apply lifelong learning through on-going professional development and mentoring.
The pedagogical objectives however were very woolly and imprecise. Meanwhile on the technical mastery side we wanted to get away from a prescribed list of tools which had to be mastered. The key in the end was linking tools to learning by starting with learning. In this way one can do away with the technical mastery section altogether and simply phrase the pedagogical objectives in terms of the benefits which may be derived from using digital/online tools. An example would be:
Pedagogical aim: Would the learning activity benefit from access to external persons? (eg students in another location, experts, eye witnesses):
VITAE learning objective:
I can help my students communicate synchronously and asynchronously through text, voice and video.