Reusable assignment

Reusable Assignments (RA) are learning activities that have value beyond a class or course. These assignments have recognisable merit, their immediate relevance is clear to students. A single-use assignments is a 'Disposable Assignment’, where the student’s work is submitted to only an educator for evaluation purposes and then thrown away. A ‘disposable assignment’, often elicits complaints from students and educators.

A reusable assignment encourages students to create an artefact (such as a Wikipedia article) that has a life beyond the classroom itself and corresponds with student’s interests. These kind of assignments demonstrate or show that certain capabilities in action. Then another student can build upon this work and use it for a future assignment. These "reusable assignments" draw inspiration from the open education resources movement.

David Wiley wrote about this format in 2013. He clarified that such an assignment should freely licensed, be used, adapted, and expanded upon by the student or others in or outside of a course.

Creating such RA assignment

Creating a reusable assignment requires an understanding of Wikipedia's norms (known as policies and guidelines). If you are setting Up a reusable assignment, this should be done with an assignment course page, in order to lessen the burden for Wikipedia Editors.