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The Wisdom of the Crowd: A Crowdsourcing Approach to Compiling a Directory of Teaching and Learning Tools
1. The Wisdom of the Crowd
A Crowdsourcing Approach to Compiling a Directory of Teaching and Learning Tools
Enda Donlon (@donenda)
MDI / DCU
ILTA Annual Conference 2016
“ReConstituting TEL: Rising to the Challenge”
May 2016, Dublin #ilta2016
Image: https://pixabay.com/en/concert-crowd-audience-people-768722/ (CC0)
2. Simply defined, crowdsourcing represents the act
of a company or institution taking a function once
performed by employees and outsourcing it to an
undefined (and generally large) network of people
in the form of an open call. This can take the form
of peer-production (when the job is performed
collaboratively), but is also often undertaken by
sole individuals. The crucial prerequisite is the
use of the open call format and the large network
of potential laborers.
Jeff Howe, 2006,
http://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/cs/2006/06/cro
wdsourcing_a.html
Crowdsourcing
“Simply defined, crowdsourcing
represents the act of a company or
institution taking a function once
performed by employees and
outsourcing it to an undefined (and
generally large) network of people
in the form of an open call
[...]
The crucial prerequisite is the use
of the open call format and the
large network of potential laborers.”
- Jeff Howe, 2006
http://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/cs/2006/06/crowdsourcing_a.html
Image: Joi Ito https://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/15785885631 (CC BY 2.0)
3. Crowdsourcing in Education
• access to a potentially global range and diversity of locations,
opinions and problem-solving options; provides a means of voicing
opinions that otherwise would not be shared; brings together
communities of interest and concern (Paulin & Haythornthwaite,
2016)
• assimilate many small contributions into resources of high quality
(Cornelli & Mikroyannidis, 2012)
• offers new ways of envisioning student involvement in the
classroom (c/f students as producers) (Hills, 2015)
• dissemination, negotiation and evaluation of scholarship
(Veletsianos, 2013). Image: https://pixabay.com/en/mass-people-supporters-1355493 (CC0)
18. The Wisdom of the Crowd
A Crowdsourcing Approach to Compiling a Directory of Teaching and Learning Tools
Enda Donlon (@donenda)
MDI / DCU
ILTA Annual Conference 2016
“ReConstituting TEL: Rising to the Challenge”
May 2016, Dublin #ilta2016