The International Hispanic Online University outlines an approach to mapping learning outcomes at a granular level to drive online course design and evaluate learner achievement. Instructional designers work with subject matter experts to ensure content alignment with assessments through objective mapping. This granular competency mapping process has been successfully deployed in online courses to ensure quality and consistency in design, foster active learning, track assessment to content, and use data to monitor student achievement.

1. Mapping Learning Outcomes:
A Fluid Approach to E-learning Course Design and Evaluation of Learner Achievement
The Instructional Design Team at the International Hispanic Online University (IHOU)
outlines best practices in mapping learning outcomes as a course design strategy.
Mapping learning outcomes on a granular level drives the course design process at IHOU.
While working with numerous Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from multiple institutions,
IHOU instructional designers use objective mapping to ensure alignment of content to as-
sessments.
We will showcase how SMEs have successfully deployed this granular competency mapping
process within their online courses.
-Ensure quality and consistency in design
-Foster active learning
-Track assessment to course content
-Use data to monitor student achievement
“In a world in which information, knowledge, and job specifications are changing ever more
rapidly, outcomes evaluations at the course and program levels are the only consistent
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Contributors: Carrie Main and Andrea Gomez.
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