Authentic E-learning

Yesterday, we had our "Foundations" class with Dr. Reeves from COE. I have learnt a new concept there: Authentic E-learning. 

These are the principles of authentic learning:

• Provide authentic contexts that reflect the way the knowledge will be used in real life
• Provide authentic tasks
• Provide access to expert performances and the modeling of processes
• Provide multiple roles and perspectives
• Support collaborative construction of knowledge
• Promote reflection to enable abstractions to be formed
• Promote articulation to enable tacit knowledge to be made explicit
• Provide coaching and scaffolding by the mentor at critical times
• Provide for authentic assessment of learning seamlessly integrated within the tasks

(Reeves, personal communication, September 6, 2016)

After the class, I started thinking about how I can adapt authentic e-learning to
the online platform for professional development that I want to design.