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=Teaching staff are provided with support resources (including training, guidelines and examples) on using learning objectives to guide e-learning design and (re)development. =

Evidence
Mager (1997) notes that without instructional objectives the following three problems arise: teachers can’t decide which content and procedures will help them to achieve their objectives, it is difficult to create assessments to tell whether students are competent or not, and students won’t know when to stop practicing.

However, it is not enough to merely require the clear statement of objectives in documentation templates because, ‘to order people to write objectives without ensuring they know how or why, is to invite dissension and frustration’ (Mager 1997, pg 151).

Resources
Many web resources offer guidelines to writing good instructional objectives based on Mager’s (1984) and Bloom’s (1956) work, e.g.:

http://med.fsu.edu/education/FacultyDevelopment/PDF/writingobjectives.pdf

http://www2.gsu.edu/~mstmbs/CrsTools/Magerobj.html

http://classweb.gmu.edu/ndabbagh/Resources/IDKB/develop_objectives.htm

http://www.e-learningguru.com/articles/art3_4.htm