A Quick Introduction to Learning Domains and What the Future May Hold

If you have ever taught, or at least applied for a teaching job, you may have heard of Bloom’s taxonomy. The main principle of the taxonomy is that, a lesson plan might consider what we expect students to learn coming out of the tutorial, workshop, course or program of study. While thinking about the what, we may also might consider how much of the what we would like to teach. Are we asking students to build a microservice pipeline from scratch, or do we just want them to know what a microservice pipeline is?

So, when we build a lesson, we make statements like: A) “By the end of this course, you will be able to recognize a microservice pipeline within an enterprise system” or B) “you will be able to create a microservice pipeline using a modern event streaming system and two wads of bubblegum.”

The reason we do this is because knowing what we want students to learn helps us determine how we would evaluate the learning. Question A might be tested through a multiple choice question or a point and click exercise. Question B would require some kind of major project or boot-camp activity. Either way, if the person doing the upskilling is able to do the things we ask them two, they are on the road to demonstrating the particular skill. As instructors, we have evidence that a person can or cannot do the…