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Hills, Thomas Trenholm (2015) Crowdsourcing content creation in the classroom. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 27 (1). pp. 47-67. doi:10.1007/s12528-015-9089-2

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12528-015-9089-2

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Abstract

The recent growth in crowdsourcing technologies offers a new way of envisioning student involvement in the classroom. This article describes a participatory action research approach to combining crowdsourced content creation with the student as producer model, whereby students’ interests are used to drive the identification and creation of educational content. This article first describes how this approach is grounded in cognitive psychology and aligned with contemporary learner-centered approaches to education. A case study is then provided detailing how this conceptual framework was implemented in an undergraduate psychology course on persuasion and influence. Two specific applications of this approach are described, one involving found content—with students identifying, explaining the research basis for, and archiving examples of persuasive content, they discover outside the classroom, in a public blog entitled Propaganda for Change—and a second involving content creation—with students producing their own persuasive messages that promote pro-social messages of their choosing. This framework offers a promising contemporary approach to learner-centered education and shifts the burden of education from figuring out how to expose what students know and are interested in into helping them construct relationships between content and their own prior understanding of the world.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: L Education > LC Special aspects of education
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Computer-assisted instruction, Project method in teaching, Communities of practice
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Computing in Higher Education
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 1042-1726
Official Date: 21 April 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
21 April 2015Published
31 January 2015Available
Volume: 27
Number: 1
Number of Pages: 21
Page Range: pp. 47-67
DOI: 10.1007/s12528-015-9089-2
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: University of Warwick

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