Sixthsession of the series that introduces you to basics of instructional design.

1. Instructional Design
for Dummies
A short course that explains the basics of Instructional Design
Session 6:
Writing Objectives
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2. Objectives
After completing this session you will be able to:
Write instructionally sound learning objectives
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3. Understanding Learning Objectives
Learning objectives are not list of topics covered under a session
A learning objective should describe what a student should be
able to do after going through a particular session

4. Parts of a Learning Objective
A well written learning objective should consist of
three parts, performance, condition and criterion
Performance: What the Condition: Under what Criterion: At what point the
learner will be able to do after constraints the learner performance is acceptable.
completing the session. This demonstrates the expected What are the standards of
part is known performance or behavior, acceptance? This part is
as performance or behavior known as condition known as criterion

5. Example
Performance
“At the end of this session you will be able to describe at least 10
unique features of the Speedo Bike, without referring to the sales
manual.”
Criterion Condition

6. Non Example
A non example will be, “At the end of this session you will understand why
Speedo Bike is unique.”
You can clearly see that in the later example it is impossible to measure the
effectiveness of the training

7. Summary
In this session we learned that:
A learning objective should describe what a student should be able to do after going
through a particular session
A well written learning objective should consist of three
parts, performance, condition and criterion

8. Thank You
Shyamanta Baruah (Sam)
www.shyamantab.com
conversations@shyamantab.com