Choice, Ownership and Voice Trough Authentic Learning

COVA is an opportunity for continuous growth and self-management of the student's learning process, where students find meaning and logic when they learn something meaningfully.

 Learning becomes authentic since it has a why and for what purpose. This model appeals to me because it is an excellent opportunity to change our perspective on teaching and learning effectively, where the first step could be through a process of internal unschooling.

For me, the biggest challenge is managing knowledge independently outside of an academic environment. I could miss the face-to-face class we have predetermined in our teaching culture. I must also use and master new technologies to support this learning model.

As a benefit, this proposal induces us to be the object and subject of the process from the first day—developing opinion and how-to skills in all case studies and taking sides from your place of work or study.

It is a novel model with a unique feature that allows us to develop skills and obtain new knowledge from interconnectivity with the academic universe and the new.

It also allows us to develop the interactive capacity with other institutions and authors who give us the most innovative criteria related to the topic.

• Dr. Dwayne Harapnuik. (n.d.). CSLE. It’s About Learning. https://www.harapnuik.org/?page_id=849

• Dwayne Harapnuik. (2018, February 14). COVA Approach [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ft__0LE3qQ

• Dwayne Harapnuik, Tilisa Thibodeaux, & Cynthia Cummings. (2018). Choice, Ownership, and Voice through Authentic Learning COVA. Creative Commons License. https://doi.org/https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1bdbac4d4fbdff334a642eb11/files/8b18ae2a-8696-4d58-9b80-192f4cc6624c/COVA_eBook_Jan_2018.02.pdf

• Harapnuik, D. (2017, July 19). Cova. It’s About Learning. Retrieved June 23, 2021, from http://www.harapnuik.org/?page_id=6991