Crowdsourcing Environments in E-Learning Scenario: A Classification Based on Educational and Collaboration Criteria

Author

Barbosa, Carlos Eduardo ; Epelbaum, Vanessa Janni ; Antelio, Marcio ; Oliveira, Juliano ; Moreira de Souza, Jano

Author_Institution

COPPE - Grad. Sch. & Res. in Eng., Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

13-16 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

687

Lastpage

692

Abstract

Recent crowd sourcing tools are changing the Education. However, each tool has a specific approach, business model and e-Learning goals. Due the increasing contribution of crowd sourcing in the e-Learning process, it has become important to study it and map the challenges intrinsic to this activity. This work discusses and classifies several crowd sourcing e-Learning tools that can be found in the Internet. We defined and used eleven dimensions to classify the 22 tools found, ranging from online Universities to marketplaces for online courses. The work contributions are: provide the first map the crowd sourcing tools and a framework for classify the future tools.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; distance learning; educational courses; educational institutions; Internet; business model; collaboration criteria; crowd sourcing tools; crowdsourcing environments; e-learning goals; e-learning process; e-learning scenario; educational criteria; online courses; online universities; Business; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Electronic learning; Internet; Tutorials; Classification; Crowdsourcing; e-Learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMC.2013.122

Filename

6721875