7 reasons: Why we need to kill boring ‘learning objectives’!

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 7 reasons: Why we need to kill boring ‘learning objectives’!
Donald Clark, Donald Clark Plan B, 2015/03/24
I'm not really a fan of learning objectives either. For the record, here are Clark's seven reasons:

• Objectives make a poor first impression
• Stating objectives defers learner engagement
• They also cause people to stop paying attention
• They are a misapplication of Gagne
• The rule that objectives must be stated is overly prescriptive
• It's difficult to write good objectives, and few master it
• Stating them is a waste of time

From my reading, these sever objections are really just one objection stated over and over. More...