Authentic Contexts

Use real problems of practice

• Describe specific roles for learners
  • Roleplay simulation - Fablusi
  • Student elaborate on brief role profile and take ownership for role - 2 students collaborate on one role
• Ask students to describe relevance
  • Students select specific nature of learning activity in their community (i.e., observation exercise, interview, investigate community-based rescources)
  • View big screen movies and explain relevance to learning outcomes/practice (i.e., Patch Adams, Good Will Hunting, The Doctor)
  • listen to authentic stories and determine relevance

Make learning complex

• Design ill-structured problems and tasks
  • Problem based learning (PBL)
• Require collaboration
  • Small group work - dyads or 3-4 persons
  • Creative assignments (i.e., poems, photostory, montage, solve a puzzle)
  • Dyad moderate discussions for the week
  • collaborate with research author re clarification, examples, elaboration etc.
• Ask students to apply prior knowledge