Set Your Preferences

 Preference Settings

Options:

• Choose the Learning Domains you need access to

• Set a Default domain

• Choose which Taxonomy of Knowledge you need

• Taxonomies of Skill & Attitude are set for you

• Choose whether to enable a Reference Audit Trail or not

  • Recommended if your course offers professional accreditation upon successful completion

Learning Domains

• Mark the Domains you need to use.

• If a domain does not apply to the kinds of instruction you are designing, then remove the checkmark.

• Based on these settings, the software enables and disables learning domain options on certain dialogs that appear.

Default Domain

• Choose the learning domain that will be your preferred domain.

• Based on your selection:

  • when the Learning Objectives dialog opens

  • the Learning Levels and Learning Type settings associated with your default domain are preloaded.

Taxonomy of Knowledge

Bloom’s Original 

• In 1956 Dr. Benjamin Bloom published a framework for categorizing educational goals. It contained these six categories:

  • Knowledge

  • Comprehension

  • Application

  • Analysis

  • Synthesis

  • Evaluation

Bloom’s Revised

• In 2001, a group of cognitive psychologists, researchers and other specialists published a revised version of Bloom's taxonomy. New descriptive labels were assigned and the top two levels adjusted. The Bloom’s Revised categories are:

  • Remembering

  • Understanding

  • Applying

  • Analyzing

  • Evaluating

  • Creating

Taxonomy of Skill

Dave (1975)

• We have elected to use exclusively the skill taxonomy of Ravindra H. Dave who published this during the period of 1969 - 1975 because we feel it is more aligned with the education of adults.

• There are two other models, one by Simpson and the other Harrow, and we will remain open to comments/feedback about possibly offering these in the future.

Taxonomy of Attitude

Krathwohl (1964)

• To our knowledge there has been only one taxonomy of this domain published

• It is by Dr. David Krathwohl in 1964.

• We use it in the Learning Design Tool.

Learning Objective Usage

Enable Reference Audit Trail

• This preference setting controls whether the Learning Design Tool records information on the Learning Objective reference numbers and where they have been extracted to, including a new:

  • Word document

  • PowerPoint file

  • LeaderGuide Pro Facilitator Guide              .

With this setting enabled, the Learning Design Document can also contain tracking information about:

• the source documents that were created during the Analysis phase of the design project, and

• where the Analysis summary content was imported from.

When a Course ID is used, the Audit Trail tracking feature also tags:

• the source documents content was imported from, and

• documents extracted from the Design Document.

NOTE:

This feature is tied to using the Course ID.

• You add a Course ID as you start a new Learning Design document.

• The Course ID is a Windows searchable keyword field.

• Using the Course ID allows you to easily locate all electronic files associated with your various Learning Design documents.