Reeves, T. Herrington, J. & Oliver, R. (2002). Authentic Activities and online learning. In J. Herrington (Eds.) Proceedings of HERDSA. Joondalup: Edith Cowan University.
www.ecu.edu.au/conferences/herdsa/main/papers/ref/pdf/Reeves.pdf
This paper places activities into the centre of learning. They are no longer merely an add on to the course content to provide practice and reinforcement of the learning. They are the course.
The types of learning activities that achieve the course learning outcomes rather than supplement the course content involve complex sustained real-life activity within collaborative groups.
The authors present ten characteristics of authentic activities that can be used as checklist in course designs and give examples of how online technology can be utilised to support these characteristics.
The question is how will we encourage busy academic staff to invest the extra time and effort to design these complex courses when there is so little educational development support available within universities?
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