Generic Learning Outcomes

These short statements or ‘generic learning outcomes’ are here to help you to appreciate the learning, which you are experiencing. Please adapt any of these statements to describe your learning in your blog. The examples (in blue) are the type of statement we are looking for in your blog.

Knowledge & Understanding
- Knowing about something
- Learning facts or information which can be Subject specific, Interdisciplinary / thematic
- Learning about myself, my colleagues, my workplace or my place of training
- Making sense of something
- Deepening understanding
- Giving specific information – naming things, people or places
- Making links and relationships between things
- Using prior knowledge in new ways

 ‘The day has given me a clear understanding of how to contact a business in Lithuania’
‘I now understand how a group can work well together even though we don’t know each other
‘I now know what a learning platform is’

Skills
- Knowing how to do something
- Intellectual skills – reading, thinking critically and analytically, making judgements
- Key skills – numeracy, literacy, use of ICT, learning how to learn
- Information management skills – locating and using information, evaluating information, using information management systems
- Social skills – meeting people, sharing, team working, remembering names, introducing others, showing an interest in the concerns of others
- Emotional skills – recognising the feelings of others, managing feelings, channelling energy into productive outcomes…
- Communication skills – reading, writing, speaking, listening…

 ‘I can now communicate confidently in Spanish, via email’
‘I learnt how to let other members of the team lead, when my natural tendency would be to lead myself’
‘I have learnt 10 new English words relating to selling’
‘I led the team in the negotiation exercise’
‘I have learnt enough Romanian to greet someone, and ask them their name’

Attitudes and Values
- Feelings and perceptions
- Opinions about ourselves e.g. self-esteem
- Opinions or attitudes towards other people
- Attitudes towards organisations eg work / college
- Positive attitudes in relation to an experience
- Negative attitudes in relation to an experience
- Reasons for actions or personal viewpoints
- Empathy, capacity for tolerance (or lack of these)

‘I have developed a very positive attitude towards achieving the tasks set’
‘I have changed my mind about this activity as I can now see its value’
‘Following our group discussion, I no longer feel strongly against the idea.’
‘During the past three weeks, I have built up the confidence to lead the negotiations with another group’
‘I now consider Lithuanians and Romanians to be very considerate people, particularly when negotiating.

Enjoyment, Inspiration, creativity
- Having fun
- Being surprised
- Innovative thoughts, actions or things
- Creativity
- Exploration, experimentation and making
- Being inspired

‘I have been inspired to do other research work in my own time using Google’
‘The logo exercise made me realise I had a creative flair which I didn’t know I had!’
‘I did not appreciate that working in a team could be so much fun, and would produce so many imaginative ideas’

Action, behaviour & progression
- What people do
- What people intend to do (intention to act)
- What people have done
- A change in the way that people manage their lives in relation to work and study
- Actions (observed or reported)
- Change in behaviour
- Progression – towards further learning, eg registering for a further course, developing new skills
- the result of action which leads to change

‘I have started to contribute to a photography blog’
‘I am looking into further IT courses put on at the college’
‘I have agreed with my partner to purchase\se a computer for the home’