Authentic Learning

Authentic Learning

1. Students feel motivated by solving real-world problems.

2. Learning-by-doing is the most effective way to learn.

3. Authentic learning typically focuses on real-world, complex problems and their solutions, using role-playing exercises, problem-based activities, case studies, and participation in virtual communities of practice.

4. Nine Elements of Authentic Learning

   • Provide authentic contexts that reflect the way the knowledge will be used in real life
   • Provide authentic tasks and activities
   • Provide access to expert performances and the modelling of processes
   • Provide multiple roles and perspectives
   • Support collaborative construction of knowledge
   • Promote reflection to enable abstractions to be formed
   • Promote articulation to enable tacit knowledge to be made explicit
   • Provide coaching and scaffolding by the teacher at critical times
   • Provide for authentic assessment of learning within the tasks.

5. Students pull from their own background experiences and knowledge to reflect upon new concepts and ideas, construct explanations, and consider alternative perspectives to concepts and ideas.