Crowdsourcing in Higher Education

Roberto Llorente () and Maria Morant ()
Additional contact information
Roberto Llorente: Universitat Politècnica de València
Maria Morant: Universitat Politècnica de València

Chapter Chapter 7 in Advances in Crowdsourcing, 2015, pp 87-95 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Pervasive application of crowdsourcing techniques in Higher Education institutions improves the students’ performance by using collaborative projects to enhance each student’s skillsSkills , optimizes the lecturing process effectively sharing and pooling study materials, and also improves alumni financial situation by supporting tuition crowdfundingCrowdfunding . In this chapter, we describe four key areas where the application of crowdsourcing techniques plays an important role in the performance of the alumni in Higher Education institutions. The proposed “crowdteachingCrowdteaching ” technique optimizes lecturing enabling sharing and exchanging of lecture notes following the different curricula of Higher Education studies. With “crowdlearning,” the students learn by execution on collaborative projects where different students share (effectively teaching each other under lecturer supervision), learn the required skills required to carry out the targets of the project and solve the proposed problem. In relation to obtaining funding, with “crowdtuition” the students’ tuitionTuition fees can be funded via crowdsourcing methods and also “crowdfunding” can be used to obtain laboratory and classroom material or students’ learning stays abroad. Using these crowdsourcing methods, the students can find help to pay the university taxes and also interact with other students for a deeper learning process. Applying crowdsourcing to education enables the optimization of the institutions’ budget and a more efficient use of time for learning which in the end leads to student’s better results.

Keywords: High Education Institution; Online Learning; Open Educational Resource; Massive Open Online Course; Massive Open Online (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-18341-1_7

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783319183411

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18341-1_7

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().