Content Curation
for Education and Learning:
Robin Good @Emerge2012
Key benefits of
content curation
For learners
Next practices in learning and teaching
It provides an opportunity to generate on an ongoing basis learning and sense-making collections immediately useful for others
Learning by composing a puzzle that includes research, investigation, collecting, editing and presenting.
Helps learners "see" and understand the relationships and links that connect various domains and activities.
Helps learners see the "forest" from the trees
Allows to learn and comprehend a topic in a multi-dimensional way
Curation trains students in developing the very skills needed in the future
Developing Future Workskills Through Content Curation
Immersive and holistic/comprehensive approach to learn any subject, collaboratively
"Critical and creative thinking should be prioritized over remembering content"
Students as "curators"
For academic institutions /
For training organizations
Education is the New Marketing
Educators as Curators
Presentation
Library collections (both digital and physical) are resources that provide evidence for inquiry, serving archival and logistic roles. Thus, an important criterion for evaluating collections is their ability to serve as evidence for learning.
e) Opportunity to become the new Google of knowledge
Curation is the new Search
d) Opportunity not to depend in the future from the binding of teaching and certification
c) Opportunity to become true incubators of talent
Become breeders of talent for the industry
Talent development
b) Opportunity to create new value instead of "imparting" and certifying old information.
a) Opportunity to create new value from their existing resources and assets
Content Curation: How To Approach It If You Are Just Starting Out
Educators as Curators: 8 Steps to Bringing Your Students the Best of the Web
by Jennifer Funk
"A curator of information is really just a good researcher and organizer of information and this should be part of language arts, social studies, science, and other areas."
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Students becoming curators of information
If you really want to learn a body of knowledge or skills (or whatever other learning area you define), it is really hard to beat becoming a curator for that area. In a sense, this is what academics have always done. They focus in on a particular discipline and spend their lives researching, writing about, and (less and less) teaching it. The good curator does much the same, though typically in a less formal way and with no promise of tenure.
Who are your curators?
2) Learn how to be a curator
If you want to combat information overload, I see this as one of the surest ways – find people who are already doing a great job making sense of the areas you care about. Follow them. Engage with them. Encourage them.
1) Find great curators
Content Curation Tools
Mindmap of Curation Types and Examples
Quora: What are the best curation tools
How curation tools can enhance academic practice
Content Curation Universe
All of the content curation tools
Art
Pictify
Kullect
Images
Pinterest
Timelines
Trailmeme
Dipity
memolane
Mindmaps
PearlTrees
MindMeister
Mindomo
Video
DragOnTape
Redux
MiroCommunity
YouTube Playlists
Newsletter
XYDO
News
Tumblr
BlogBridge
Scoop.it
Storify
Content Clippers
BOLT
GimmeBar
Education specific
Diigo
LiveBinders
Academicpub
SlideBlender
Curatr
EduClipper
McGraw-Hill Create
Learnist
Curation at work:
great examples
Examples of content curation at work
Lynda.com
Wikipedia
Squidoo pages
TED-ed
Open Aftermath
BookCoverArchive
eLearningExamples
Additional resources
on Curation:
Examples of Great Curated Education/Learning Collections
Content Curation and Related Resources
Howard Rheingold
Beth Kanter
Twitter
Video channel:
Content Curation World
Video compilation:
What is content curation
Pinterest board:
Content Curation Visualized
Content Curation World
Collaborative - Social Curation
is the Future
Collaborative curation project
for emerge2012
You need first to free register at Mindomo.com
it's free
How we are going to do it
By collaboratively editing a mindmap
where each one can add a relevant web examples of a curated collection that has been used for education or learning
The goal
To collaboratively edit a collection
of great examples of "curation" at work in education and learning.
10) Growing Demand for Trusted Guidance Over Learning Content and Curricula
Here is a good example: Noodle
Finding and selecting quality open educational resources
There is a growing need to find relevant and reliable resources when the offer becomes so broad
With so much abundance and difference in quality, learners express a growing demand for trusted guides to help them in selecting quality learning sources.
9) Educational Marketplace Open to Thousands of Competitors - Anyone Can Teach a Course Online
In the same way that the dissemination of music is no longer owned by a handful of music companies and book publishing is no longer controlled by a handful of book publishers, education is no longer the exclusive realm of large, formal institutions.
The educational marketplace is now open to thousands of small competitors.
100 Resources to Create an Online Course
Marketing is education - Education is marketing
Knowmia - Thousands of video lessons from great teaches around the world
It becomes increasingly easy to find and get in touch with the brightest people in every area of interest.
Today, anyone can become both a "resource", a supplier of content as well as a curator/editor/publisher of new curated content resources such as book collections, expert guides, curated and annonated lists of resources, examples and templates galleries.
There are now tens of learning marketplaces and platforms that allow anyone to offer and sell courses online.
Resource: Online learning marketplaces and teaching platforms
OER Author
There is a large availability of free or affordable tools to create, find, edit and publish valuable content
8) Teachers and professors can now curate their own textbooks
OpenStax College
Mc Graw Hill Create
Connexions:
Collections and Lenses
Cloudworks
iTunes U
Resources
"...teachers can (and should) take control of their courses by creating their own interactive textbooks"
7) Alternative certification systems are emerging: Open Badges
Open Badges
Bloomberg: Study This to See Whether Harvard Pays Off: Laurence Kotlikoff
When Professors Print Their Own Diplomas, Who Needs Universities?
Subtopic
Tuition costs for certified academic programs are at an all-time high while value of this courses on the job market keeps decreasing.
6) Job Market Is Rapidly Changing
New Skills Needed
The Apollo Research Institute reports on what are the future work-skills needed
PDF download
New media literacy: ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication
Computational thinking: ability to translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts and to understand data-based reasoning
Novel and adaptive thinking: proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rule-based
Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques.
Cross-cultural competency: ability to operate in different cultural settings. More about cross-cultural competency.
Social intelligence: ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions. More about social intelligence.ility to represent and develop tasks and work processes for des
Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed. More about sense-making.
Virtual collaboration: ability to work productively, drive engagement, and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team. More about virtual collaboration.
Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines. More about transdisciplinarity.
10 skills that we believe will be vital for success in the workforce:
ired outcomes
From the New York Times: "...Mr. Zimmer warned against viewing the workplace as a “collection of buckets or isolated specializations,” and he emphasized the interconnectedness of different fields and skills."
"...diplomas are a highly expensive and inefficient screening device used by employers who are afraid to test potential employee skills..."
The value of educational certifications and degrees in the work world gradually fades.
"The diploma serves as a screening device that allows businesses to narrow down the applicant pool quickly and almost without cost to the employer, but with a huge financial cost to the individual earning the diploma (often at least $100,000), and to society at large in the form of public subsidies."
Epic 2020
The value of traditional CVs and resumes is rapidly fading
Fact: (in the US) 17 million college graduates have jobs that do not require a college degree
That's "over 30 percent of the working college graduates in the U.S."
Outside of traditional professionals as doctors and engineers, companies are looking more for skills and experience than degrees and certificates.
5) Fast-Food Information Consumption In Rapid Decline - Curation Is the New Search
It should be us, those who search, to establish how we want to slice and dice information results.
Linear text results sorted by secret algorithms are not good anymore to provide valuable quality answers and explanations.
People want to go from fast-food information access to quality and comprehensive info-hubs, possibly not-driven by commercial/advertising interests.
Google has lost its "mojo"
4) Real-World Information Is Not Held Inside Silos Like Academic Institutions Pretend
Curated digital collections facilitate information seeking through well-designed collection structure (in other words, the organization among collection components), which should clarify relationships between collections and sub-collections, and at the same time accommodate expectations of both users and system managers
By studying a topic through the creation of specific knowledge-artifacts such as collections, learning guides and data visualizations instead of through the memorization of lots of information separate information units, allows not only for discovering the true relationships between apparently distinct issues, but also for the discovery and comprehension of a topic from multiple complementary viewpoints.
Curation fits in as a more appropriate approach to learning and to prepare for real-world work challenges, by allowing learners to construct meaning by having to research and to understand and to create new relationships between different information-elements.
While the academic world, from elementary schools to universities is basically organized around subjects, the "real world" is a complex web of situations in which the "fields" we studied for so long but separately in school, are all deeply and constantly intertwined.
3) From a Static, Unchanging World of Information To a Constantly Changing One
Digital literacy skills are those skills needed to navigate and utilize the world of information equipped with appropriate research, analysis, critical evaluation and collection/curation abilities.
Digital literacy skills are therefore of the essence for both teachers, educators and learners alike.
The key goal is not anymore just to learn and master the key principles and discoveries of the past. It is rather to be able to monitor, filter and evaluate which are the most relevant information sources to utilize when constant change and new discoveries are the new status.
2) A Growing Number of "Open" and Freely Accessible Teaching/Learning Content Hubs
Collection of Open eLearning Content Repositories
Directory of of Tools for Storing
Open Educational Resources
EDX
Announced on May 2, EdX is the joint creation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard. The partnership strives to bring online learning to people across the globe and offers online classes for free. EdX courses include videos, quizzes, feedback, and more to help students navigate the material.
MIT-X
Open Content
Creative Commons
MOOCS
Video: What is a MOOC
OER
Udacity
In 4 months Udacity has more than 5 times the number of students currently enrolled at Stanford and more active students than the combined enrolled student population of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and Yale in 2010.
Khan Academy
Coursera
edX Coursera Participating universities: 16 Launched: 2011 Classes: 111 Total students: 800000
Open Courses everywhere
The growth of Open Content initiatives and repositories shows that there are opportunities to create more value from the existing educational content available out there.
1) There is an abundance of information that needs to be organized.
The importance of new literacy skills
needed to navigate online info while being able to evaluate its reliability
critical thinking skills
The goal is not anymore to learn or memorize it all, but to be able to identify which parts of it are most relevant to a certain goal/objective.
It's the age of sense-making.
Why is Curation so relevant for
Education and Learning?
10 key reasons
What is Content Curation
Content Curation definition
Robin Good:
"The unique value that the newsmaster brings into the information economy equation is the more formal acknowledgement and introduction of a human-based news filtering into the news distribution mechanism.
The newsmaster helps the system scale, provides higher quality and more relevant content to be accessible by a greater number of people, does the dirty job of categorizing, ordering and separating news according to specific audiences and interests."
A newsmaster is anyone who while utilizing automatic RSS aggregation and filtering tools acts a news curator, digest editor in hand-picking and selecting exclusively the stories, coming from external news sources, that are particularly relevant to his audience.
"Newsmastering is the process by which a human being identifies, aggregates, hand-picks, edits and republishes a highly-focused, thematic news via RSS.
Newsmastering allows dedicated news editors (newsmasters) to remix and contextualize the existing tsunami of breaking news for very specific audiences in one thousand and more ways." 8/2008
Content Curation definition
Rohit Barghava:
"To find the best and most relevant content and bring it forward. The people who choose to take on this role will be known as Content Curators.
The future of the social web will be driven by these Content Curators, who take it upon themselves to collect and share the best content online for others to consume and take on the role of citizen editors, publishing highly valuable compilations of content created by others.
In time, these curators will bring more utility and order to the social web. In doing so, they will help to add a voice and point of view to organizations and companies that can connect them with customers – creating an entirely new dialogue based on valued content rather than just brand created marketing messages." 9/2009
Content curation is NOT the same as social sharing, reposting/retweeting, liking or favoring a specific content item.
Curation is about making sense of a topic/issue/event/person/product/etc. for a specific audience.
Social sharing and personal expression are about "me" and what
I like and find "interesting".
The question to ask is who are you
doing this for?
The difference is in the "intent"
Curation comes from the Latin verb: "curare" which means "taking care of someone".
Digital Curation: Wikipedia
Curator: Wikipedia
Content curation is the act of researching, finding, filtering, editing and collecting valuable information resources into meaningful collections, guides or galleries to help a specific group of people make sense/learn or be updated on a specific topic.
This map is reachable at:
http://bit.ly/CurationforEducationMap
