Learning outcomes: potential game-changer, or worthless bean-counting and cataloguing exercise?

Summary: Harvey Weingarten, President of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, describes learning outcomes as a "game-changer." A report by Richard Shireman argues that setting out learning outcomes has become, in some cases, nothing more than "worthless bean-counting and cataloging." In this extract from the draft version of my CEA Presidential Address, I talk … Continue reading Learning outcomes: potential game-changer, or worthless bean-counting and cataloguing exercise?