Draft:Renewable assignments

Introduction
Renewable Assignments are learning activities that are completed by students and then published for a wider audience. Instead of a traditional or disposable assignment, where the student's work is submitted, marked and discarded. A renewable assignment is presented freely and openly to other. Which then can be worked on. When completed online, these renewable assignments provide an authentic task, which has learning benefits for the student, and if licensed as an Open Education Resource (OER) under a  Creative Commons License, the assignment also has a lasting benefit to the broader scholarly community

Renewable assignments are popular among digitally capable students. They feel their effort has value since their submissions are visible beyond the markbook of a course. This knowledge motivates them to produce excellent work. Renewable assignments tap into the notion that students want recognition for their efforts. The assignments can take different forms. A group of students could co-create or update an existing glossary, a cohort of instructional designers can produce an online textbook about project management, a public interest website might be developed, the H5P Content Hub where interactive content can be shared and reused, textbook reviews or articles written on Wikipedia, by health science students who want to share public health information.

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