Stirring a Secret Sauce: A Literature Review on the Conditions and Effects of Authentic Learning

Abstract The present conceptual literature review analyzes 50 studies that systematically examined the effects of authentic learning settings on cognitive or motivational outcomes. analysis focuses describing context studies, design elements settings, and pursued intentions authenticity. further describes authentically designed outcomes, learners’ perceived authenticity revealed by previous research. Building these findings, we conducted Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) contrasting cases to identify characterizing show high effectiveness for outcomes versus those with low effectiveness. ENA results suggest, instance, providing materials (as a element settings) resemble real-life experiences an intention authenticity) could be double-edged sword, as they feature both Overall, point critical limitations research, such lack clear definitions operationalizations learning. Consequently, draw specific conclusions about how future research improve our understanding create implement powerful methods