Enabling an Environment for Student Generated Content
This presentation exemplifies and justifies the production of learning objects (quizzes, lectures, games, interactive online material) by students for students thus releasing tutors to facilitate the learning environment and to engage in dialogue with their learners who articulate/ express their understanding through material shared via an interactive learning platform.
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The normative learning & teaching environment in most educational establishments at all levels is that of students having to consume content made by others. Although students have always generated their own content by way of essays, papers, lab reports, etc. this form of generated content is, for the most part, used for testing and examination purposes. Very little is actually shared among students for socially constructed newer meaning. In effect, student generated content (henceforth SGC) before the advent of the internet and more specifically web 2.0 was only of a one-directional – from student to teacher. More recently, a growing number of educational establishments advocate the usage of ePortfolios. Yet even here, such usage serves as little more than educational showcasing of finished creations as opposed to the joint production and sharing of learning objects which is highlighted in here
Click to access the Student Generated Content website
The normative learning & teaching environment in most educational establishments at all levels is that of students having to consume content made by others. Although students have always generated their own content by way of essays, papers, lab reports, etc. this form of generated content is, for the most part, used for testing and examination purposes. Very little is actually shared among students for socially constructed newer meaning. In effect, student generated content (henceforth SGC) before the advent of the internet and more specifically web 2.0 was only of a one-directional – from student to teacher. More recently, a growing number of educational establishments advocate the usage of ePortfolios. Yet even here, such usage serves as little more than educational showcasing of finished creations as opposed to the joint production and sharing of learning objects which is highlighted in here
