Curation is the act of identifying, selecting, organizing and sharing online content on a specific topic to match the needs of a target audience. The core aspects of curation are defining the topic and audience, sourcing potential content, evaluating and filtering content, and organizing it. Effective curation requires defining goals, understanding the audience and their learning styles, crafting an engaging message, and establishing a framework. As learning has become more self-directed and on-demand, curation tools help learners access information from any device to learn what they want, when they want. Curation tools like Diigo, Evernote, eLearningTags and Pearltrees allow users to collect, organize and share online educational content.

1. Content Curation
Mariam Magdy

2. What is this?

3. Cure-ation

4. 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.

5. The core of curation is:

6. The core of curation is:
▪ Defining: what is the specific topic, audience, need.
▪ Sourcing: finding potential content.
▪ Organizing: evaluating, filtering, ranking, organizing
▪ Analyzing.

7. Needs for Effective Curation:
Goals
Audience
Message
Framework

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Engagement Pyramid:

11. 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.

12. 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:

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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

19. Top Free Edu-Content Curation Tools:
▪ eLearningTags
you can share, discover, vote and discuss interesting and
remarkable eLearning and EducationalTechnology 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

20. Thank you