Alignment connects a course together from the broadest objectives to the most granular activities. Creating an aligned curriculum facilitates strategic thinking, ensuring—to the extent possible—that everything we and our students do is in service of a particular course’s learning goals.

In this Teaching Tip, you will learn to:

• Contrast specific, measurable objectives from non-specific, unmeasurable objectives
• Create specific, measurable course objectives
• Define “alignment” of course objectives
• Create specific, measurable module objectives that are aligned with course objectives

Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Fundamentals of Learning Objectives & Alignment