In this course, it is my first time to touch the concept "produsage". After knowing the meanings of produage, I found it to be similar to one of my previous idea about instruction.
I used video production in my Chinese teaching. That is, students are given a big topic, for example, characters in period of Three Kingdoms, and then are asked to choose one of characters, search his/her life story, write a introduction about the character, and make a video to instruct other students about the character and Chinese words, phrases, grammars regarding to the video.
However, produsage is different from my ides about video production in its four characteristics: 1) Open participation and communal evaluation; 2) Fluid heterarchy through ad hoc meritocracies; 3) Palimpsestic unfinished artifacts in a continuing process; and 4) Common property and individual rewards.
Now, I am thinking that for each course in higher education we could provide a platform for students, including those who already took the course, are taking, or will take, to create, contribute, modify course contents. Students write questions and answer others' questions in the platform. Also, they could "like" helpful answers and based on the number of "like", students could choose their correct answers. After several semesters, this platform would be a good place for learning knowledge of the course.
We had something similar in our Mid Grade Officer Course for the Coast Guard. My course was second time the service offered the course since it was created the year before. Majority of our class was done online for 11 months and the main instructors would have guest join us in our discussion boards from the previous class. They were able to provide insight into their experience with the class and how they used the topic at hand in their career after the course was complete.
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