Higher Education Teaching and Learning

Trying to determine what makes a good learning outcome likely doesn’t start with the question of what a learning outcome is. What is probably a better question to ask is; what is the purpose of a learning outcome? Surely if we know the purpose of a learning outcome we can judge whether it is good?

Ok, so what is the purpose of a learning outcome? Most educational institutions would agree the purpose is to set a goal for what teachers want students to be able to do at the end of a sequence of study or learning.