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Digital curation is emerging as a sound strategy in learning experience design to replace or enhance courses. It’s also a strategy for building community and a way to support informal learning and a backchannel. In this episode, I speak with Allison Anderson and Ben Betts, co-authors and editors of Ready, Set, Curate: 8 Learning Experts Tell You How.
Allison is a Chief Learning Strategist at Learning EcoStrategies. She has more than 20 years of experience as a learning leader in both higher education and the private sector. Ben leads the team at Learning Pool, specialists in learning and performance technology. Ben is a thought-leader in Learning Technology with more than 15 years of experience and a doctorate where he studied the impact of gamification on adult social learning.
WE DISCUSS:
- Defining digital curation
- Difference between aggregation and curation
- Why curation is a viable solution for workplace learning
- Examples of how digital curation can be used: Imagination, Instruction, Integration and Implementation
- How curation is supported by instructional science
- Curation and community—the social aspect of curation
- Curation strategies for learning experience design
- Effective curation process
- Determining valid sources to curate
- Curation copyright and licensing issues
- Common mistakes new curators make
- Curation tools
TIME: 31 minutes
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TRANSCRIPT: Download the ELC 042 Transcript.
RESOURCES:
- Ready, Set, Curate: 8 Learning Experts Tell You How by Allison Anderson and Ben Betts
- HT2 Labs where Ben is the CEO
- Scoop.it: curation tool
- Medium: writing platform
- AndersPink: automated curation tool
- Curatr: Ht2 Labs curation tool that incorporates social learning and gamification
- Degreed: micro-credentialing platform
- PathGather: enterprise learning platform
- Review of Ready, Set, Curate
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