Authentic Learning in the context of Teaching and Learning.

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"What is Authentic Learning?"


In the context of education, authentic learning is regarded as an instructional methodology that gives room for students to become creative thinkers, collaborative, deliberate, as well build constructive and well defined concepts  in contexts that relate to real-world problems, products, solutions and services which of essence of relevance to the learner.

Check out the video below that showcases the design principle aspects/elements of Authentic Learning



Furthermore, authentic learning can be viewed as varied educational techniques that typically focuses on form real world connections with what students have learnt in school to real-world problems and appropriating meaningful solutions or applications to tackle these problems.

Learning will be regarded as more relevant or say " Authentic" when students are exposed to learning that prepares them to gain new skills and concepts that replicates real-life contexts while empowering them to create solutions or products that are relevant to the addressed problems. One of my favourite quotes while considering "Authentic Learning" will be - " Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten’ (New methods and new aims in teaching, 1964). " Hence, when deep meaning and direct relevance to the real-world context is missing, learning tends to be a volatile experience for the learner.

In the next series of my blog post, I will be sharing my learnings on the 9 elements of Authentic learning by Dr. Jan Herrington:

• Authentic Context - Real-life relevance
• Authentic Task - An Ill-defined problem
• Expert Performance
• Multiple Perspectives
• Collaboration
• Articulation
• Reflection
• Coaching and Scaffolding
• Authentic Assessments

Is Authentic learning beneficial, should it be an approach for the educational systems? Let us find out at the end of the 9 elements of Authentic Learning.

Page References -

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentic_learning
2. http://authenticlearning.info/AuthenticLearning/Home.html
3. http://www.acel.org.au/acel/ACEL_docs/Publications/e-Teaching/2016/e-Teaching_2016_10.pdf

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