User Content Questions
From Horizon Project
[edit] The 2007 Horizon Report: Toward a Research Agenda
The annual Horizon Report, a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years. A central focus of the discussion of each technology is its relevance for teaching, learning, and creative expression.
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With the release of the fourth edition in this annual series, the NMC is undertaking for the first time a concerted, international effort to describe a research agenda based on the six practices and technologies featured in the 2007 edition of the Horizon Report. You are invited to participate in this process, contribute to the discussion, and help shape directions for future research in these topics across higher education.
This effort reflects and embodies the topic of new scholarship, featured in the 2007 Report and also the subject of a major NMC focus area initiative. The completed research agenda is designed to encourage a deeper level of understanding around each of the topics in the Report.
The results from this effort were published in October 2007 as the Horizon Project Call for Scholarship. Scroll down to see some of the ideas that were provided in support of the Horizon Research Agenda.
[edit] What are the missing pieces for User-Created Content to be implemented in higher education?
- How do we integrate into the culture of our institution beyond adopting the next cool thing (tenure, assessment, value, longevity)?
- Common understanding of how it works, what it means. Certification and validation of credibility.
- Teacher acceptance/skills to implement. Various literacies and evaluations.
- Intellectual property issues. Quality of resources.
- Views of authority/controls=faculty attitudes, institutional culture
- Faculty don't see wikipedia as a good source of information; faculty familiar with it.
- Academic attitude - more open mind toward open materials.
- Obstacles to collaboration around user created content include copyright, IP, and evaluation of individual contributions.
- How do we keep track of work over time? Work by faculty and students in these ephemeral environment.
- How do we deal with people who abuse the system?
- Authoritative control - are there tools to track who is contributing, and if they are who they say they are.
[edit] What kind of research would you like to see around this topic?
- How do we integrate into the culture of our institutions beyond adopting the next cool thing (tenure, assessment, value, longevity)? How do we establish a common vocabulary and expectations world-wide or even within a department?
- Under what circumstances does it facilitate learning? What disciplines might be most appropriate, and/or how? How do faculty members evaluate?
- Validity of user-created content. Impacts on scholarship.
- Who is an authority? Is user-created content legitimate?
- Do you learn from user-created content? What is authority?
- Locally produced wikis, user studies, sustainability, students hooked in over time and developmentally.
- How do you track an individuals contributions over time? Short or long term.
- How do we give experts greater weight in their contributions to collaboratively created content?
- How transparent can the technology be to enable greater development of user created content? Reauthor, mash-up.
- Is the user community a viable authority? Has anyone tested this?
[edit] What are the learning implications of User-Created Content?
- Basic computer literacy gaps.
- Opportunities from learning different voices.
- Knowledge shift
- Students may not know how to find and evaluate resources. Students could be much more engaged and excited.
- Peer-to-peer learning, student ownership, students sense of themselves as scholars.
- How do we structure/contextualize/frame user created content to yield high quality meaningful outcomes
- How do we leverage abilities to aggregate user created content to increase longivity?
- How do faculty evaluate user created content? Multiple contributors? Various content sources taken piecemeal from potentially untrackable locations?
- How can we think about learning implications - assembling an answer (constructivist) vs searching for information.
- maintenance issues (monitoring content, implications for space, storage)
- How to address moderating of content
