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There is no shortage of digital content. With the rapidly expanding body of content available on the Internet, in different media formats, it is relatively easy to acquire digital assets from a range of sources including commercial, organisational/institutional, open and user generated. As another academic year begins, it seems likely many educators will be gathering links, and filling up drives, VLEs and online spaces with educational content to support their curricula and provide assets for their students.
But there are some pitfalls, gathering and storing content, in the hope that it may prove useful can easily result in content overload. Searching for educational content, (a subjective concept - of more use to content providers than users), will probably miss the potential of many unique and rewarding assets out there. The value of digital content for learning is determined by the context, not the the subject. If the meaningless cliche 'Content is King', is replaced by Context is King, then we might start heading in the right direction
In order to avoid becoming bogged down by the quantity and diversity of digital content, and to gain value and meaning; requires strategies for evaluating, managing, contextualising the use of digital content. In a series of post in the coming weeks I will share some of my thoughts, ideas, knowledge and experience in this area.
Next in series - re-usability.
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