Digital Curation as a Core Competency in Current Learning and Literacy: A Higher Education Perspective

Digital curation may be regarded as a core competency in higher education since it contributes to establishing a sense of metaliteracy (an essential requirement for optimally functioning in a modern media environment) among students. Digital curation is gradually finding its way into higher educatio...

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Autor principal:	Leona M. Ungerer
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2016
Materias:	Competency digital curation digital literacy higher education metaliteracy openness Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e3b94ce2722c468393055bc0a7e26e1e2021-12-02T19:20:42ZDigital Curation as a Core Competency in Current Learning and Literacy: A Higher Education Perspective10.19173/irrodl.v17i5.25661492-3831https://doaj.org/article/e3b94ce2722c468393055bc0a7e26e1e2016-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2566https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Digital curation may be regarded as a core competency in higher education since it contributes to establishing a sense of metaliteracy (an essential requirement for optimally functioning in a modern media environment) among students. Digital curation is gradually finding its way into higher education curricula aimed at fostering social media literacies. Teachers are urged to blend informal and formal learning and since most people informally use curation in their daily lives for compiling relevant information, it may be fairly easy to adopt digital curation in teaching and learning. Teachers, however, require considerable insight in incorporating various informal digital curation tools in educational practices. The SECTIONS model may assist in guiding decisions around the suitability of digital curation tools for a higher education environment. Including digital literacy training in the professional development of academic staff members may sensitize them to the possibilities that incorporating digital approaches in curricula offer. The Five Cs of Digital Curation framework may guide academic staff members in compiling suitable digital material. There as yet appears not to be a pedagogy that fully acknowledges the various digital curation processes. A pedagogy of abundance, acknowledging that content often is freely available and abundant, may eventually prove relevant in this regard. Leona M. UngererAthabasca University PressarticleCompetencydigital curationdigital literacyhigher educationmetaliteracyopennessSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 17, Iss 5 (2016)
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description	Digital curation may be regarded as a core competency in higher education since it contributes to establishing a sense of metaliteracy (an essential requirement for optimally functioning in a modern media environment) among students. Digital curation is gradually finding its way into higher education curricula aimed at fostering social media literacies. Teachers are urged to blend informal and formal learning and since most people informally use curation in their daily lives for compiling relevant information, it may be fairly easy to adopt digital curation in teaching and learning. Teachers, however, require considerable insight in incorporating various informal digital curation tools in educational practices. The SECTIONS model may assist in guiding decisions around the suitability of digital curation tools for a higher education environment. Including digital literacy training in the professional development of academic staff members may sensitize them to the possibilities that incorporating digital approaches in curricula offer. The Five Cs of Digital Curation framework may guide academic staff members in compiling suitable digital material. There as yet appears not to be a pedagogy that fully acknowledges the various digital curation processes. A pedagogy of abundance, acknowledging that content often is freely available and abundant, may eventually prove relevant in this regard.
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title	Digital Curation as a Core Competency in Current Learning and Literacy: A Higher Education Perspective
title_short	Digital Curation as a Core Competency in Current Learning and Literacy: A Higher Education Perspective
title_full	Digital Curation as a Core Competency in Current Learning and Literacy: A Higher Education Perspective
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Digital Curation as a Core Competency in Current Learning and Literacy: A Higher Education Perspective

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