Why Use Content Curation in Education?

What is content curation?

Several years ago, we emphasize on user-generated content, but now facing rich content, we turn to organizing existing content. Content curation is a act to discover, assess, compile, and share existing content online.

Then, why do we need to use content curation in education? Here are my answers:

1. Information and knowledge is constantly changing, and thus it requires instructors to update info and knowledge and curated textbooks.

2. Content curation provide instructors a good way to flip the classroom. Instructors could select a topic and ask students to make content curation about the topic. In this way, students not only are empowered and then deepen their own understandings, but also facilitate communication with peers and the instructor.

3. Content curation is a new way for instructors to assess students' understandings and performance. Do content curation well requires students spending time to search relevant content as well as assess the content and organize in a meaningful way. And thus through looking at students' content curation, instructors would have a comprehensive way to assess students' performance.

4. It fits in with the new needs of the society, which requires students have more practical skills.