The emergence and adoption of freely available digital curation tools has shown a public desire to locate, evaluate and organise web content into manageable, shareable collections. These tools occupy a unique niche, often overlapping with other web tools. This necessitates a clear definition of tools laying claim to this space and suggestion and direction for the use of digital curation to build student engagement. A definition is suggested, as well as a discussion on the emotional design principles and how they build sustained engagement with users.

1. Engaging higher education
students via digital curation
Dr Amy Antonio, Neil Martin & Adrian Stagg
Australian Digital Futures Institute (ADFI), USQ
Monday 26th November 2012
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2. Confessions of a Pinterest Addict
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4. Buzzwords of 2012
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5. Digital curation tools
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6. “Digital curation is an active process whereby content or
artefacts are purposely selected to be preserved for
future access.
In the digital environment, additional elements can be
leveraged, such as the inclusion of social media to
disseminate collected content, the ability for other users
to suggest content or leave comments and the critical
evaluation and selection of aggregated content.
This latter part especially is important in defining this as
an active process.”
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7. Tools in context (Antonio, Martin & Stagg, 2012)
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8. Emotional design (Walter 2011)
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9. Examples
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10. Scoop.it
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h"p://www.scoop.it/t/social-­‐media-­‐in-­‐higher-­‐educa7on/curate
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11. Storify
h"p://bit.ly/TYZUWZ
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12. Pinterest
h"p://pinterest.com/davidpinned/
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13. Do these tools have value?
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15. It’s early
‣student pilots
‣new tools e.g. Trap.it
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‣evaluation
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16. References & credits
References:
Walter, A. (2011). Designing for Emotion, Happy Cog
Image Credits:
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Student by CollegeDegrees360. http://flic.kr/p/7xow5x.
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2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) licence.
Alarm Clock 1 by Alan Cleaver. http://flic.kr/p/cEJFoo
Used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
(CC BY 2.0) licence
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17. Thank you!
Australian Digital Futures Institute
Website: http://adfi.usq.edu.au
Email: adfi.admin@usq.edu.au
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adfiusq
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