The Effects of Collective Digital Content Curation on Student Autonomous Motivation

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fourteen
  In Roundtable Session: Unexpected Emergence: The Synergy of Technology and Agency Through Inquiry (Table 18)

Abstract

This pre-post intervention study, conducted in two secondary school physics classes, used self-determination theory to investigate the effects of collective digital curation on student autonomous motivation. This study found that utilizing a collective curation process that takes advantage of crowdsourcing can produce a resource that students value more than the textbook alone, and that the process of collective curation can better satisfy students’ basic psychological needs and autonomously motivate students to participate in the learning process.

Author

• Nathaniel Woodruff, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  Presenting Author