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Curriculum: some definitions

Looking at Aims, Objectives, Learning Outcomes, and Competences in relation to curriculum

Needs Assessment

What is missing. The gap between what is known, and what knowledge, skills, or attitudes are needed to perform effectively. This process of needs identification will be carried out by individual learners, but also has to be done by those designing and delivering courses

Course Aims

The general statement by the course organisers of their intentions in designing and running the course in question. This will relate to their assessment, or estimate, of the learning needs of the participants

Objectives

An expression in concrete and specific terms of what will happen on the course. The specific activities which participants will undertake on the course in order to achieve the stated aims.
Note: not what will be learned, that comes next, but what will be done.

Outcomes

What will be learned. What the participants will be expected to achieve at the end of the course - knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Specifically what achieving the course objectives should have enabled the participants to learn

Competences

What, as a result of the learning, the participants will now be capable of doing.
Because these will be competences, these abilities will be transferable to different settings in time and place. This comes round full circle to the original needs assessment - filling the identified gap in performance.

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