Lesson 3: Planning Webinar Instruction

5. Summary

In this lesson, you learned how to write a goal statement and learning objectives to describe what your learners will be able to do once they complete your webinar. You did this by first writing your goal statement and then writing learning objectives to describe what learners would need to do to show they achieved the goal.

Strict adherence to the rules for writing both instructional goals and learning objectives may not be practical when designing your webinar. Your ultimate goal is to answer the question “What will learners be able to do after completing my webinar?” This goal differs from the teacher-centered approach described in the beginning scenario where Sam asked: “What do I want to teach about this topic?”

Note: The instructional design process is very adaptable. You may find that once you begin developing your instructional content that your learning objectives, or even your instructional goal, aren't really want you want. This is perfectly acceptable, just revise them and continue with your design.