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Jan Herrington’s model of Authentic learning

Jan 24, 2012

in Assessment, Learning, PhD, Research, Teaching

articulation, assessment, authentic activities, authentic assessment, authentic learning, authentic tasks, collaboration, Complexity, Jan Herrington, reflection, scaffolding

A few days ago I met with my supervisor to discuss my research plan for the year. She suggested I look into Jan Herrington’s work on authentic learning so I thought I’d make some notes here as I familiarize myself with it. To begin with, there are 9 elements of authentic learning (I believe that in…
Problem based learning: transitioning to an online / hybrid learning environment

Sep 15, 2011

in Assessment, Assignments, Curriculum, Learning, Research, Students, Teaching, Workshop

assessment of pbl, blended learning, content, critical thinking, face to face, hybrid, karl popper, meena iyer, missouri university, online, pbl, problem based learning, problem solving, scaffolding

A few weeks ago I attended a short presentation by Prof. Meena Iyer from Missouri University. Prof. Iyer spoke about how she moved her PBL module from using a traditional, mainly face-to-face approach, to an online / hybrid approach. Here are my notes. —————————- “All life is problem solving” – Karl Popper How do we…