ABSTRACT
Alignment of authentic elements in any e-learning course is essential. If a teacher specifies higher-order outcomes for a course, every effort must be made to assess those outcomes in the most reliable, valid, and feasible manner possible. If the learner tasks are appropriately complex and challenging, the instructor must assemble the necessary real-world and technological resources to scaffold students as they strive to accomplish those tasks. For example, there is little point creating a well-considered and complex authentic e-learning task and then assessing it by testing factual knowledge in a multiple-choice test.
