Authentic learning designs:

1. Provide authentic contexts that reflect the way the knowledge will be used in real life

2. Provide authentic activities

3. Provide access to expert performances and the modelling of processes

4. Provide multiple roles and perspectives

5. Support collaborative construction of knowledge

6. Promote reflection to enable abstractions to be formed

7. Promote articulation to enable tacit knowledge to be made explicit

8. Provide coaching and scaffolding by the teacher at critical times

9. Provide for authentic assessment of learning within the tasks.

Herrington, A., & Herrington, J. (2006). What is an authentic learning environment? In A. Herrington & J. Herrington (Eds.), Authentic learning environments in higher education (pp. 1-13). Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing.

Iverson, K., & Colky, D. (2004). Scenario-based E-learning design. Performance Improvement, 43(1), 16-22. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.une.edu.au/docview/237239419?accountid=17227

Andragogy – teaching strategies for adult learners.

“the art and science of teaching adults to learn”

Knowles, Malcolm S; Holton III, Elwood F; Swanson, Richard A (2012). The Adult Learner. p327.Retrieved from http://www.eblib.com

Knowles, Holton & Swanson (2012)

To be competitive in a global job market, today’s students must become comfortable with the complexities of ill-defined real-world problems. The greater their exposure to authentic disciplinary communities, the better prepared they will be “to deal with ambiguity” and put into practice the kind of “higher order analysis and complex communication” required of them as professionals. (p. 10)

Lombardi, M. M. (2007a). Approaches that work: How authentic learning is transforming higher education. Educause Learning Initiative.

Students preparing posters on a scientific topic and presenting them at a mock conference.

Students writing an authentic species entry for the Natural Values Atlas of Tasmania.

Capstone units in which students engage with industry to solve a real-world problem.

Students of physics working with authentic research data.

Students writing an excursion report in the form of a journal paper.

Jones, S.M. Casper, R. Dermoudy, J. Osborn, J. Yates, B. (2010) Authentic learning: A paradigm for increasing student motivation in an era of mass education. University of Tasmania.

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