ugc edmedia2012
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UGC as learning methodologyTRANSCRIPT
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a path or a resource for learning?
User Generated
Content
José Lagarto
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
26-29 June 2012
Who am I ?
• Associated professor at Portuguese Catholic University
• In charge of master degree in ICT and Education (elearning)
• Researcher in field of elearning and distance learning
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UGC – definitions
• UGC – user generated contet
or… User created content
Content created by users(in HE institutions… or not)
OCDE – UGC definition- It is content made publicly
available over the Internet, on a webpage, or on a social networking site accessible to a
select group of people;
- It should reflects a certain amount of creative effort - users must make a certain effort to create or recreate content and add their
own value to it;
- It is created outside of professional routines and practices - It does not have a commercial
market context…non profits!
• From the OCDE definition, UGC can be:
UGC – a concede definition
UGC
Strategies used for promote learning process (activities, sharing, collaborative work)
A final product.
UGC is content created and shared freely by University students and/or teachers and has not been done through a process of formal peer review.
From UGC to OER’s
Thousands of academic assignments or works are lost every
year – the UGC
Reusability & rights
Repository UGC
Repository OER
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UGC – Safety and Internet – one solution
a blog, (UGC)a presentation (UGC)an eleaning course (UGC)
on the subject of “Safety and Internet”.
UGC – production phasessafety and Internet – one solution
• Phase 1 – Collecting information and designing a blog
• Phase 2 – Drawing synthesis
• Phase 3 – Building an elearning course with the material collected in phase 1
• Phase 4 – Evaluation• Face to face meeting• Questionnaire
• Phase 1 – Collecting information and designing a blog
3 groups
ABC
Collect andSelect
manual
magazines
articles
web sites
Organize and post in Blog
Phase 1 – Collecting information and designing a blog- blogging in Blackboard
• Sample of blog text
Phase 1 – Collecting information and designing a blog - blogging in Blackboard
“Trying to communicate in secret in an environment with thousands of potential witnesses, such as the Internet is, it’s difficult, and the likelihood of someone overhearing a conversation between two parties increases as the distance that separates them. Since the Internet is truly global, no secret was to be communicated through it without the help of encryption, how to preserve the reservation information.”
Phase 2 – Drawing synthesisTools and behaviours for a safe Internet use
Educational behaviour
Anti virus
Personal data, references and pic.s
Phase 2 – content presentation
Phase 3 – building an elearning course with the material collected in phase 1
Safe use of Internet Course for students, parents and teachers
Phase 3 – building an elearning course
Safe use of Internet Course for teachers
How the course works
Phase 4 – evaluation: f2f meeting
• Meeting (last classsrom activity)
Evaluation – finding evidences
• Data gathering methods
– Observation and document analysis – Online survey – Written assignment
• research, posting and critique of selected contents to the blog in the Blackboard
Evaluation of personal
and group work
• of content blogs of the other groupsEvaluating the quality
• that resulted from the presentations of groups
Evaluating level of
knowledge
• elearning courseEvaluation of the final product
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Quiz categories
Student’s perceptions about UGC strategy
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7%
21%
71%
I found much informa-tion that it was unaware
DisagreeAgreeCompletely agree
7%
50%
43%
I found content that did not know very helpful
DisagreeAgreeCompletely agree
Student’s perceptions about UGC strategy
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7%
21%
71%
The set of content gathered by the group covered this
topic
DisagreeAgreeCompletely agree
7%7%
7%
29%
50%
The material gathered has contributed to increase
my knowledge on this topic
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Agree
Completely agree
Student’s perceptions about UGC strategy
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7%
14%
21%
57%
Overall, I consider that the proposed
task led me into new learning
Disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Agree
Completely agree
7%
21%
29%
43%
The training proposal promotes an easier
learning process
Disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Agree
Completely agree
Some conclusions from the field
Usefulness of collected information for their personal knowledge • …the main information got in the research was useful
and some of them were totally unknown. So the usefulness is evident
The collaborative way of work, a new approach to learning• … collaborative work was the added value of this
strategy
The transferability of learning outcomes to another contexts • …the quality of final products done by the groups. The
final course proposal has quality enough to be immediately used
Student’s perceptions
Some final challenges around UGC
or ?
Process
Final products
UGC
LO? inspira
tion?
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Thousands of academic works are lost every year. If the UGC is placed in an available repository it can becomes an OER and will be available to be used. The door is open for a more effective learning by using and reusing learning objects.
