Strengthening Learner Participation in Online Courses: The Role of Digital Content Curation

• In Event: DDL - Learner Behavior

Short Description

Digital Content Curation in online learning environments offers learners the opportunity to become learner-curators, and instructors to evolve into educator-curator. In this study the learners were 27 graduate student at a large Midwestern research-intensive university majoring in educational technology. A preliminary content of analysis of students’ end-of-course reflections shows that students value their role as learner-curator. Some light is shed on the role of digital content curation as an alternative to online course participation.

Authors

• Ana-Paula Correia, Iowa State Univeristy

• Nadia Jaramillo, Iowa State University