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Call for Next Collection: Student-Generated Content

by Sloan-C

Sloan-C is looking for more examples of how student-generated content can be used effectively in online education. Sloan-C has started a collection (see below for details) which provides some representative examples of effective practices related to student-created content. However, the current collection represents a relatively small number of isolated examples. We invite you to submit additional examples to add to our collection so that we can share this with the online and blended education practitioner community.

Submit Effective Practice for STUDENT-GENERATED CONTENT

What Is Student-Generated Content?

About This Collection:
The purpose of this collection is to showcase specific examples of how student-generated content can be used effectively in online education. In particular, this collection has focused on examples of student-generated content which represent a significant shift from students as content consumers to students as content producers, and/or result in products of lasting value to students individually, to other students, or to the larger community and society.

Student-generated content has been a part of learning for a long time, but generally for relatively limited purposes such as completing assignments or acquiring knowledge. The motivation behind developing this collection was a sense that the use of student-generated content has a huge and largely untapped potential to change education for the better, for instance by increasing student engagement, developing critical thinking skills and fostering community, while also resulting in products of lasting value. The hope is that this collection will bring more attention to its potential for using student-generated content and stimulate its wider use to benefit students, faculty, and others.

About Some of the Current Items in the Collection: Student-generated content (SGC) has long been a staple of art and design education, so MCAD’s Online Gallery is a good place to start and see how SGC can be truly amazing work. Student performances are another effective form of SGC, as Steve McCarty's use of podcasting student performances illustrates.
Emerging technologies such as podcasting and wikis hold particular promise. David Miller shows how to move beyond lecturecasting and use podcasts for SGC at UConn, while UNCP students in Kenneth Mentor's cjencyclopedia project are creating a useful wiki-based resource. SGC is not really new to online education either; learn how Richard Semmler has seamlessly incorporated practical application exercises into his calculus courses since 1995. The Real-Time Case Method is also a time-tested method of enabling students to create content which is immediately useful to 'outside' companies, while Assessment Learning Object creation shows how students can create 'raw material' to facilitate faculty creation of more finished content.

To see all of the EPs in the current collection, search on the keywords "student-generated content" and view the results.

To submit your own effective practices related to Student-Generated Content, click on the Add an Effective Practice button to complete the entry form, or contact Dan Robinson at: drobins@sloan-c.org. Remember that your EP submissions are peer reviewed and so can help with tenure and promotion.