Focused Outcomes
Focused outcomes is the active-learning principle that every design decision — segment, activity, prompt, debrief — is traceable back to a specific outcome the session is supposed to produce. It operationalizes backward design at the session level, replacing topic-organized sessions with outcome-organized ones.
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- Backward Design
- Backward design is an approach to designing learning experiences that starts with the desired observable outcome and works backward to the activities, content, and sequencing that will produce it.…
- Observable Outcomes
- An observable outcome is a desired learning result expressed as a behavior, artifact, decision, or performance that a third party could witness and evaluate from the outside. Observable outcomes use…
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- The Guiding Principles of Active Learning
A workshop can deploy every visible marker of active learning — breakouts, think-pair-share, live polls, roleplay — and still produce the passive-learning outcomes the approach is supposed to…