Herrington’s 9 Principles of Authentic Learning

  • Provide an authentic context that reflects the way the knowledge will be used in real life
  • Provide authentic tasks and activities
  • Provide access to expert performances
  • 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
  • Provide for authentic assessment of learning.

Herrington, J., Parker, J. & Boase-Jelinek, D. (2014). Connected authentic learning: Reflection and intentional learning. Australian Journal of Education, 58(1), pp. 23–35.