The second step in YAFUEL framework is Instructional goals, that is, what are we trying to accomplish with the actual course?
Why is this important? As Lewis Carrol states in his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : "If you don't know where are you going, any road can take you there".
If we don't know what are we trying to accomplish in our course, how do we know if we finally did so? The whole course design should adapt to our instructional goals.
One departure point can be Bloom's Taxonomy or the revised version of the model from Lorin Anderson and Dr. David Krathwohl. But instructional goals are not limited to the cognitive part: Affective and psychomotor goals should be considered too.
Once our instructional goals are clear, we can move forward to the next step in the framework: The student.
(picture taken from Wikipedia).
Why is this important? As Lewis Carrol states in his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : "If you don't know where are you going, any road can take you there".
If we don't know what are we trying to accomplish in our course, how do we know if we finally did so? The whole course design should adapt to our instructional goals.
One departure point can be Bloom's Taxonomy or the revised version of the model from Lorin Anderson and Dr. David Krathwohl. But instructional goals are not limited to the cognitive part: Affective and psychomotor goals should be considered too.
Once our instructional goals are clear, we can move forward to the next step in the framework: The student.
(picture taken from Wikipedia).