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Enhancing Student Learning with Authentic Experiences

Explore the concept of authentic learning and assessment, its relevance to student experience and employability, various approaches, and opportunities for application. Understand common elements and examples from law, health, and online simulations. Learn how it aligns with QAA enhancement themes and sectoral developments. Discover case studies, potential uses in projects, placements, research linkage, and integrative assessment. Discuss course content application, problem-solving, criteria development, and interdisciplinary opportunities. Plan for future implementation, resource needs, and institutional strategies.

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Enhancing Student Learning with Authentic Experiences

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  1. Enhancing student learning through authentic learning experiences Pam Crawford (CDC) Ginny Saich (DAICE)

  2. Session Aims: 1. Introduce authentic learning and assessment 2. Highlight its relevance and potential for: 2.1 enhancing the student learning experience 2.2 contributing to student employability 3. Identify a range of authentic learning approaches 4. Enable participants to consider potential opportunities for their own application of approaches Participant Aims: Aims Authentic Learning Experiences

  3. Session Content • Session aims • Defining authentic learning • Exemplifying authentic learning • Disciplinary relevance and application • What next? Authentic Learning Experiences

  4. What is authentic learning? • Learner-centred (constructivism) • Involves active learning (application) • Uses authentic tasks (real world) • Interdisciplinary in nature • Requires integration/synthesis of knowledge • Often involves collective work (tackling complexity and/or achieving efficiency) • Diversity of possible outcomes Authentic Learning Experiences

  5. Common Elements 1 • Understand problems/tasks/situations: • relevance of past experience and prior knowledge? • minimising ambiguity and/or misinterpretation? • measuring/identifying success and/or degree of achievement? Relevance to assessment? Authentic Learning Experiences

  6. Common Elements 2 • Tackling problems/tasks/situations • Identifying/selecting/developing relevant knowledge/skills/activities? • Alternative strategies/competing solutions and the criteria used in comparing them? • Making it ‘manageable’? • Recognising the value of a diversity of outcomes? Authentic Learning Experiences

  7. Examples of Use • Advisory Clinics eg. law, health • Online environments/simulations • Service learning (most disciplines) Authentic Learning Experiences

  8. Relevance to Sectoral Developments QAA enhancement themes: • integrative assessment • teaching/research linkages • employability • flexible delivery Authentic Learning Experiences

  9. Use at Stirling Case studies of good practice Authentic Learning Experiences

  10. Potential opportunities How might authentic learning be used in your context? • Projects and problem-based learning • Placements/Clinics • Linkage to research • Integrative assessment • Flexible delivery Authentic Learning Experiences

  11. Discussion • Identification/selection of relevant course content/concepts/theories • Application to problem-solving/real world issues • Presentation of outcomes/findings/product • Identification of emergent issues, problems for further activity/research • Development of criteria for evaluation - recognising success and/or effective solutions • Cross-curricular/interdisciplinary opportunities Authentic Learning Experiences

  12. The Future • Personal application/practice • Resources/support required • Linkage to departmental/institutional developments/strategies • Next steps? Authentic Learning Experiences

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