8 Exercise: Creating a High Structure Renewable Assignment

We’ve just reviewed many different types of structured renewable assignments. Hopefully, a few have resonated with you, and you’d like to adopt or adapt them to your context. This is an opportunity to do just that, by walking through much the same steps as you did in adapting a current assignment.

1. Choose an assignment type, technology, process at your work, really anyplace you can apply one of these structures.
2. Think about the right ‘size’ of contribution – what length or depth of artifacts should learners or other contributors be asked to make or edit? This is a particular opportunity to increase structure by:
   1. Limiting the timeframe
   2. Limiting the length of contribution
   3. Thinking about the right length for feedback
3. Make it renewable, by ensuring students/learners/contributors are asked to:
   1. Create something new or revise/remix existing OER.
   2. Create something that is useful beyond their learning
   3. Publicly share whatever they create or revise/remix
   4. Openly license whatever they create or revise/remix
4. Now that the assignment/technology/process encourages the renewable, look for opportunities to increase the amount of feedback learners or participants get, through peer review, open review, or other practices.

Next, we’ll look at ways we can apply structured renewable assignments across contexts.