Goal Hierarchy - Example

The following example of the goal hierarchy is based on the fictional project

"Statistics for Economists at the University of Tobat"

that we took (in slightly modified form) from the EDUM-Handbook (EDUM, 2003).

The Project
In cooperation with three other universities, the University of Tobat developed the e-learning course "Statistics.com" for students of economics. This course was developed because of the impression that many applicants to the Master's degree programs have failed as undergraduates to acquire an adequate knowledge of statistics. Hence, an entrance test was introduced; for students who do poorly the statistics course will be requiredthe statistics course will be mandatory for those students achieving poor results.

The course for the Master's students is completely web-based and run in distance mode, so that the students can freely decide, when and where they would like to invest spend time onin the course. But in over the coming years, parts of the web-based course will also supplement the classic traditional courses Statistics I and II coursesfor first year students. The intended approach here is 'blended learning': while the classic traditional lecture courses on theory are still taught in the classroom, the exercises and the seminars take place online. This is intended to permit allow students and teachers to work flexibly. In the medium term, students are expected to work more independently at from home.

Under the supervision of a freelance project coordinator, each of the four universities participating in the project developed two modules. Collectively, these eight modules fitted together to comprise the whole statistics course.

The Goal Hierarchy

...for one of the policy goals of this project could look like this: