Glossary

Simulation: An asynchronous active learning and authentic technique where students are faced with a scenario or problem which they must resolve through application and experimentation.
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Simulation/role play: Students imagine they are a particular actor or stakeholder in responding to a real-world scenario (e.g. Presidential advisor, UN secretary general, or foreign minister).
Simulations can range from sophisticated flight simulators to online role-plays.
Simulations or role plays ask students to make decisions by analysing the options available.
Simulations and role plays are forms of authentic assessment that allow students to practice real life decision making with minimal risks.
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Student negotiated assessment: This assessment type adopts a personalised learning pedagogy and allow students to follow areas of conceptual or practical interest. Students can be provided with a list of different assessment items (e.g. varying in theme, or mode of submission), and are able to pick the choice that most appeals to them.
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Study tour: Travel for the purposes of participating in learning activities.
Study tours may include multiple stops, or just one stop.
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Supported learning: Learning during which students are extensively supported by teaching staff (in contrast to the self-directed leaning typical of a research essay).
In supported learning students and teachers work closely together and collaborate in the learning process.
Often the majority of supported learning activities are conducted during contact hours to facilitate feedback and support from teaching staff.
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Technology enriched learning: Learning that employs, and is enriched by, the use of technology (particularly digital technologies).
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Translation: Translating from one language into another.
Students may be provided with (or are required to locate themselves) a piece of text that is yet to be translated, or has only partially been translated, and complete translation of this text into another language.
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Turnitin: An electronic assignment submission tool for written assessment. Popular for its originality-checking features. Note that Turnitin's originality-checking cannot check for students who pay others to write original, unpublished work on their behalf..
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Video: A range of assessment types (including a video essay; video presentation) that are required to be designed, constructed and submitted in an audio visual form.
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