Content Curation Mariam Magdy

What is this?

Cure-ation

So..Curation is:

▪ The act of continually identifying, selecting and sharing the best and most relevant online content and other online resources on a specific subject to match the needs of a specific audience.

The core of curation is:

The core of curation is:

▪ Defining: what is the specific topic, audience, need.

▪ Sourcing: finding potential content.▪ Organizing: evaluating, filtering, ranking,

organizing▪ Analyzing.

Needs for Effective Curation:

Goals

Audience

Message

Framework

Goals:

▪ To be trusted filter and source of valuable and relevant information.

▪  Create something that help your target audiences and is relevant for your goals too.

▪ Engaging learners with the e-content.

Audience:

There are three main types of learning styles:▪ Auditory▪ Visual▪ Kinesthetic Most people learn best through a combination of the three types of learning styles, but everybody is different.

Engagement Pyramid:

Message:

The driving force of this new era of eLearning is:▪ Information easily accessible from multiple

sources in the cloud.▪ information is readily available to learners who

can be resourceful to learn what they want, when they want, how they want , and without waiting for organized learning to be scheduled or pushed to them.

As a result (Framework):

▪ Learners need to take more and more control of their own learning, changing the role of learning professionals, departments and software .

▪ Learning has become an ‘on demand’ business this leads to:

Self-directed Learning:

▪ Companies are turning to facilitate performance based learning, informal learning, social collaboration and knowledge sharing

▪ So presenting the right material and facilities at the right time. For the learner it provides support in taking control of his personal development.

For Companies:

▪ Companies are turning to facilitate performance based learning, informal learning, social collaboration and knowledge sharing

▪ So presenting the right material and facilities at the right time. For the learner it provides support in taking control of his personal development.

Personalized (Adaptive) Learning: 

There are different ways of creating adaptive content. It can be accomplished by:▪ Tagging learning components and making them

smart.▪ Offering personalized learning paths based on

the outcome of previous activities.▪ The trend is definitely towards more flexible and

personalized learning material instead of a one-size-fits-all course

Personalized (Adaptive) Learning: 

▪ The job of learning professionals will shift from creating courses and scheduling events, to collecting information and learner generated content.

▪ These content assets will need to be identified and indexed for easy and effective searches by the learner.

▪ There are all kinds of aggregation software available that do this automatically.

Anywhere, anytime and any device:

Being always connected and able to find answers to anything.The impact will be huge:▪ Choosing device▪ Select the software and sources

he wants to use for learning.

Top Free Educational Content Curation Tools 

▪ Diigo Education Edition

you can highlight sites that interest you the most and rediscover your favorite content easily. You can also create groups where users are able to contribute and share their content.

▪ Evernote

helps to remember and act upon ideas, projects and experiences across all the computers, phones and tablets you use. You can easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you use

Top Free Edu-Content Curation Tools: 

▪ eLearning Tags

you can share, discover, vote and discuss interesting and remarkable eLearning and Educational Technology content. offers helpful information on a number of topics concerning distance education including eLearning, Instructional Design, Gamification, Social Learning, mLearning .

▪ Pearltrees

A place to collect, organize and share everything you like on the web. You can add everything you like and organize it naturally so as to enrich your collections and collaborate on your favorite topics

Thank you