Harold Jarche offers important comments on User Generated Context: “Creating good content on a platform that lets users (teachers & learners) add context may be the the real killer application in education. Content developers and institutions have been so concerned with protecting their content that they don’t see where the real value lies. Letting others add more context will only increase the value of their content.”
Value points in education are certainly shifting. As recently as ten years ago, content was often seen as the important aspect (hence, copyright and locked down content). More recently, academics have suggested it’s the interaction with faculty that is the key point of value. That’s increasingly questionable as we have the ability to have global conversations and interactions. Experts are still important, but not as important. Where then do we find value in education today? For learners, accreditation is high on the list. As is the ability to take learning content, faculty and student interactions, and use those as a basis for makingsense of the colossal changes in the world. The increased fragmentation of information raises the importance of each individual assuming responsibility for makingsense of trends and assessing incoming information against their personal context and the context of their work.
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