Renewable assignment
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Introduction
Renewable Assignments [1]are learning activities that are assigned to students and published for a wider audience. Unlike a traditional or disposable assignment, [2] where the student's work is submitted, marked and discarded. [3] A renewable assignment is presented openly to others as a complete work. When completed online, these assignments provide a learning benefit[4] for the student, and if licensed as an Open Education Resource (OER) under a Creative Commons License, the assignment has a lasting benefit to the broader scholarly community[5]
Renewable assignments are popular among digitally capable students [6]. They feel their effort has value since their submissions are visible beyond the markbook of a course.[7] This knowledge motivates them to produce excellent work. Renewable assignments tap into the notion that students want recognition for their efforts. [8] The assignments can take different forms. A group of students could co-create or update an existing glossary, [9] a cohort of instructional designers can produce an online textbook about project management[10], a public interest website might be developed, the H5P Content Hub where interactive content can be shared and reused, textbook reviews[11] or articles written on Wikipedia, [12] by health science students who want to share public health information. [13]
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.[14] Instead of sitting passively, they take on a significant role in their thought development
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- ^ Jhangiani, Rajiv (2017). "E-xcellence in Teaching Essay: Ditching the "Disposable Assignment" in Favor of Open Pedagogy". The Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ Seraphin, Sally B.; Grizzell, J. Alex; Kerr-German, Anastasia; Perkins, Marjorie A.; Grzanka, Patrick R.; Hardin, Erin E. (March 2019). "A Conceptual Framework for Non-Disposable Assignments: Inspiring Implementation, Innovation, and Research". Psychology Learning & Teaching. 18 (1): 84–97. doi:10.1177/1475725718811711. ISSN 1475-7257.
- ^ Ohri, Faheem; Westmore, Megan R.; Thomas, Latisha; Chakraborty, Priyanjali; Mauldin, Rebecca L. (2024-04-03). "The Use of Open Educational Resources and Renewable Assignments in Social Work Ph.D. Programs in the United States". Open Praxis. 16 (2): 180–194. doi:10.55982/openpraxis.16.2.626. ISSN 2304-070X.
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- ^ Wallis, Peter. "Examples of Structured Renewable Assignments".
- ^ Randall, D; Johnson, L; West, R; Wiley (2013). "Teaching, doing and sharing project management: The development of an instructional design project management textbook". Educational Technology. 53 (6): 24–28.
- ^ Wallis, Peter. Structured Renewable Assignments.
- ^ Azzam, Amin; Bresler, David; Leon, Armando; Maggio, Lauren; Whitaker, Evans; Heilman, James; Orlowitz, Jake; Swisher, Valerie; Rasberry, Lane; Otoide, Kingsley; Trotter, Fred; Ross, Will; McCue, Jack D. (2017). "Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia: Final-Year Medical Student Contributions to Wikipedia Articles for Academic Credit at One School". Academic Medicine. 92 (2): 194–200. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001381. PMC 5265689. PMID 27627633.
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- ^ o'Connor, Kate (2022). "Constructivism, curriculum and the knowledge question: Tensions and challenges for higher education". Studies in Higher Education. 47 (2): 412–422. doi:10.1080/03075079.2020.1750585.