BEDU304 - IFE

BEDU304
Experiential Learning and Authentic Assessment

MQF Level: 6

ECTS Value: 2 ECTS

Self Study Hours: 24

Contact Hours: 10

Assessment Hours: 216

Overall Objectives and Outcomes

This module deals with authentic pedagogy. The modern student has the world at his/her fingertips and has access to all the knowledge that is available online. The teacher needs to be relevant, to show the student how he/she can learn from his/her own experiences in the actual physical environment. The highly contextualised setting makes learning meaningful and relevant to the student’s daily life; thus, education is seen to impact the student while motivating him/her to want to learn more. As the student learns in a real-world scenario, assessment should be authentic and in conjunction with his/her experiences.

By the end of this programme, participants should be able to:

Competences

a. Create tasks from the curriculum in their respective subject that are authentic in both learning and assessment;

b. Transform traditional tasks to authentic tasks;

c. Conduct tasks that are experiential in nature and ask students to reflect on the outcome of their experience.

Knowledge

a. Define experiential learning and authentic pedagogy;

b. Comprehend the learning cycle and draw out its importance in learning;

c. Implement the main criteria of authentic pedagogy.

Skills

a. Interact with students in the learning process within highly contextualised settings;

b. Critically evaluate the traditional approach with the authentic approach;

c. Design classroom settings that are authentic and give students the opportunity to be engaged within a learning community;

d. Analyse the progress of students within an authentic and experiential learning environment;

e. Support students to assess their own learning and that of their peers;

f. Transfer learning from the classroom to the real world and from the real world to the classroom;

g. Illustrate the process of an experiential learning environment;

h. Interact with students to elicit metacognition and open-ended inquiry;

i. Learn how to learn and value authentic learning;

j. Investigate the transfer of learning from the classroom to authentic settings and vice-versa;

k. Use video to film authentic settings;

l. Use apps to give feedback and enhance interaction between the teacher and the students.

Assessment Methods

This module will be assessed through: Experiential activities, peer feedback and forum discussion.