Challenge Six: Creation and Curation
What it is:
The Creation and Curation competency involves using technology to enhance digital learning opportunities. By experimenting with various technologies, we can create and curate accessible digital materials for specific audiences and purposes. When creating your own digital resources, design for inclusion and integrate strategies to enhance accessibility — as we explored in the Ethical and Legal Considerations challenge.
Creating or curating existing materials requires that we understand and respect intellectual property rights in digital spaces. This includes being familiar with copyright licenses when using and sharing the work of others. In this challenge, we will explore copyright licences, which will allow you to make informed and ethical decisions about how and where you share your own work or the work of others.
Why it is important:
In the Information Literacy challenge, we discussed the importance of evaluating the information that we interact with. The Creation and Curation challenge focuses on developing our skills around appropriately gathering, selecting, and organizing the information we’ve evaluated. We do this by carefully curating content for our specific environments and thinking about how we share our own work with others. Understanding copyright licences allows us to ethically adopt and adapt existing resources, which can save a lot of time. Creating materials and licensing them openly to share with others provides everyone with greater access to innovative, current, and low-cost resources.
Examples:
- Listen to art historian Andrea Korda talking about the role of the instructor as a curator of resources, drawing on her experiences using and creating open educational resources (OERs) during a year of remote teaching: Curating Course Materials: Lessons Learned from Using Open Educational Resources for Remote Teaching (video, 20 minutes)
- Walk through a step-by-step process of finding and selecting open educational resources (OER) to use in a derivative work, choosing a Creative Commons licence, and applying the licence to the work: Creating OER and Combining Licenses Part 1 (video, 5 minutes)
Multimedia Activity
The following image with hotspots, adapted from the work of Christopher Lister, has been modified to illustrate a simplified view of how the Information Literacy, Creation and Curation, and Communication and Collaboration competencies work together to form a cycle of consuming, curating, collaborating, and creating.
Learning Activities
1. Learn it for yourself
Nowadays, there’s an abundance of educational resources available online. Using what already exists, as opposed to making your own materials from scratch, can save time and effort. A good place to get started with digital curation and creation in your classroom is through open educational resources (OERs). Please read chapter 1 of The Open Pedagogy Student Toolkit, The OER Landscape, and watch the video at the end to g