TED playlists: Collections for curious minds
Editor’s note: TED is now organising its videos into curated playlists – a potentially useful way to access the TED archive.
Browsing: curation
How the L&D team at Unum use curation to organise and share information
Curation provides a model and discipline around how to organise and share information for the…
Content curation tools: the newsmaster toolkit
Editor’s note: Following on from last week’s We elearning event on curation is this mind map of content curation tools from Robin Good. It is regularly updated and is a great resource.
Create or curate?
Editor’s note: The exponential growth in data on the web means we will need strategies to manage it and to surface and share relevant and timely information. This post from John Curran outlines some of the skills we will need to be effective curators. I’ll be talking at tonight’s Weelearning event on this topic.
Aggregation rumination
Editor’s note: Not heard of the term ‘aggregation architecture’ but this post looks into it. The focus is on MOOCs but the thinking could be applied across all learning systems and for all learners.
Open collections program: reading, choosing books
Editor’s note: So how did Victorians deal with the fire hose of information that was the explosion in book publishing?
What does curation mean to you and how can it be used in learning?
If you read some of the reviews from the recent Learning Live conference you would…
Learning Live conference backchannel: curated resources
Editor’s note: Dave Kelly continues to update resources from last week’s Learning Live conference in London. Worth a look to see what you missed and to get an overview of what came out of the event.
What is curation?
Editor’s note: A short video talking to some high-profile curators of content online. The idea of curation has been buzzing around the learning space for a while and if it interests you then this could be worth three minutes of your time.
Why curation will transform education and learning: 10 key reasons
Editor’s note: In this article, Robin Good says: “If we learn not by memorizing facts, but by collaborating with others in the creation of a meaningful collection-explanations of specific topics/issues/events then, for the first time in history, we can enrich planetary knowledge each time we take on a new learning task.” He goes on to expand on 10 ways in which curation can revolutionise learning.
Learnist launches iPad and iPhone apps
Editor’s note: The Pinterest for learning, which enables users to curate and share boards, has launched an iphone and ipad apps.