Renewable assignment

Introduction

Renewable Assignments are learning activities that are assigned to students and published for a wider audience. Unlike a traditional or disposable assignment, where the student's work is submitted, marked and discarded. A renewable assignment is presented openly to others to view, as a complete work. When completed online, these assignments provide a learning benefit for the student, and if licensed as are shared as an Open Education Resource (OER), under a Creative Commons License, the assignment has a lasting benefit to the broader community

Renewable assignments are popular among digitally capable students They feel as if their effort has value since it is visible beyond a class or course and this motivates them to produce excellent work. Renewable assignments tap into the notion that students want recognition for their efforts. They can take different forms. A teacher could create a glossary, an online textbook creation project, a website, an H5P Quizzes, textbook reviews or articles on Wikipedia For example, health science students have made significant contributions to public health articles on Wikipedia

Renewable assignments are gaining more popularity since university teaching has shifted from a lecturer disseminating their knowledge from the front of the class. To a more student-centered ' Constructivist approach. Students, who care given a reusable assignment, then become an active learners, capable of constructing their own knowledge. Instead of sitting passively, they take on a significant role in their thought development

Creating such an assignment

Creating a renewable assignment requires an understanding of Wikipedia's norms (known as policies and guidelines). If you are setting Up a reusable assignment, this should be done with an assignment course page, in order to lessen the burden for Wikipedia Editors.