Dr. Barbara Martin, a former professor in the College of Education at the University of Central Florida and at Kent State University in educational technology and educational psychology, specializes in instructional design (ISD), criterion-referenced testing, evaluation strategies, distance education, and instructional theory. She has written articles on ISD and educational technology, including a book on...

In the last two columns, Good Teaching Matters:  Five Teaching Practices to Improve the Quality of a Training Course, and Good Teaching Matters:  Know Your Students, we started looking at the processes of designing and delivering quality instruction.  However, of all the processes we will discuss, learning objectives are probably the cornerstone of educational quality...