Curating Content for Learning

Collecting vs Curating

A California teacher discovers an effective tool for teaching English.

iTeachU is an online training resource for eLearning instructors at the Center for Distance Education at UAF.

Increasingly, marketers are employing content curation -- the process of finding, organizing and sharing third-party content -- as a part of their content marketing efforts. Sample these 14 sources...

What is content curation in the context of education and why it is going to be so relevant in the near future. Benefits of content curation, examples and tools. - Mind Map

With so much information accessible on the internet, organizing all of it into a manageable and usable form has been up to individual users, until now.

There is a growing number of key trends that are both rapidly revolutionizing the world of education as we know it and opening up opportunities to review and upgrade the role and scope of many of its existing institutions, (as the likeliness that they are going to soon become obsolete and unsustainable, is right in front of anyone's eyes). George Siemens , in his recent Open Letter to Canadian Universities, sums them up well: 1) An Overwhelming Abundance of Information Which Begs To Be Organized The goal is not (and probably it never was) to learn or memorize all Click here to view original web page at www.masternewmedia.org

People do not get knowledge they want giving up 9 of 10 online courses. Usually they lack time and motivation to pass long online course.
Coursmos.com is a micro-learning platform that solves this problem:
1. Knowledge is represented with micro-courses of up to 9 lessons each 3 minutes long
2. Micro-lessons can contain additional materials
3. Lessons of each micro-course can be extended into separate micro-courses
4. People can request micro-courses on certain topics
5. Each micro-course can be easily created with web and mobile app