Document Type
Article
Date
2-2016
Keywords
Crowdsourcing, e-learning, peer-based learning, online learning, open education, social technologies
Language
English
Disciplines
Curriculum and Instruction | Library and Information Science | Online and Distance Education
Description/Abstract
Inclusion of open resources that employ a peer-generated approach is changing who learns what, from whom, and via what means. With these changes, there is a shift in responsibilities from the course designer to motivated and self-directed learner-participants. While much research on e-learning has addressed challenges of creating and sustaining participatory environments, the development of massive open online courses calls for new approaches that go beyond the existing research on participatory environments in institutionally defined classes. We decenter institutionally defined classes and broaden the discussion to the literature on the creation of open virtual communities and the operation of open online crowds. We draw on literatures on online organizing, learning science, and emerging educational practice to discuss how collaboration and peer production shape learning and enable “crowdsourcing the curriculum.”
Recommended Citation
Paulin, Drew and Haythornthwaite, Caroline, "Crowdsourcing the Curriculum: Redefining E-Learning Practices Through Peer-Generated Approaches" (2016). School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship. 173.
https://surface.syr.edu/istpub/173
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Additional Information
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Information Society: An International Journal, 32(2) on February 5, 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2016.1130501.