Allow Your Elearners to Bloom

While it is common practice to incorporate tasks from Bloom’s Taxonomy lower order objectives into elearning, educators and learning professionals often have difficulty leveraging elearning to involve the model’s higher order tasks. This article will illustrate 4 scalable ways to help your elearners attain higher order cognitive objectives.

 

Bloom’s Taxonomy is used widely for classifying the different objectives that educators set for learners. Since Bloom’s lower order cognitive objectives (knowledge, comprehension, and application) are all fairly straightforward to do online, they make up the bulk of current online training tasks. However, it often surprises me how quickly Bloom’s higher order cognitive tasks get overlooked when developing online training. The one exception here is the use of branched scenarios, which are fantastic but can’t be forced into every training topic we need to cover as educators.

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