Authentic Learning Environments in Higher Education
Titel:
Authentic Learning Environments in Higher Education
Auteur:
Reviewed by Dr. Adnan BOYACI
Verschenen in:
The Turkish online journal of distance education
Paginering:
Jaargang 7 (2006) nr. 1 pagina's 175-180
Jaar:
2006
Inhoud:
Over the last decade the use of the authentic cases, problems and projects as a starting point for learning has won ground in higher education. Usually, these cases refer complex, ill–defined or open ended problems and often require multidisciplinary approaches. Students start with analysis of the cases, which involvesgathering information, constructing and testing possible solutions. In short they supposedly develop competencies needed to deal withproblems and issues that arise in a professional academic practice. This approach to learning may contrast with the common practice whichhas students working individually, grasping the knowledge from their teachers and text books using artificial problems (Berge and others,2005).In other words authentic learning experiences are those situated in certain appropriate social context and inevitably relevant from learner’s perspective. In planning for authentic learning to realize, a tension can appear between providing real world ‘natural’experiences and the nature of experiences that are possible offer within institution which can be often artificial and seen as inauthentic by the student. Bridging the gap between the learning taking place within the institution and learning within the real lifecommunities of practice can be difficult for university teacher (Stein and others, 2004). In that sense the purpose of this is to construct that bridge book by providing examples of good practice.
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