Outline of the Expert Panel Sample Clauses

Outline of the Expert Panel. Germany 52 1. QMPP: BACKGROUND AND CHALLENGE1 Peer production of e-learning content is a growing trend, which will play an elementary role in creating, validating, enriching, editing, and updating of digital learning content. The concept follows the contemporary trend to allow and enable ordinary users to enter the nucleus of digital content production. Already today a variety of important factors of success in peer production and collaborative work are established and the peer production mechanism has been a central element in the development of Linux software, the Wikipedia movement and various other shared team work results and learner-created reports. Although peer production has been recognized as an important factor in e-learning content creation, especially with regards to new Web 2.0 tools (such as Wikipedia, Slideshare, Xxxxxxxx.xxx and social bookmarking etc.), the conceptualization how to manage and organize peer production has not been widely discussed. However, the benefits of peer-produced content are obvious. The lead times for the provision of learning materials shorten, the costs can be remarkably lower and the acceptance of the learners can increase due to the fact that peer-produced e-learning content (based on professional experience) can be more accurate and attracting than “clinically produced” learning content and more coherent regarding the needs and contexts of individual learners or specific learner groups. So the key paradigm shift of transforming passive receivers of e-learning content into active producers of content within their specific areas of knowledge leads to a participation in the creation of learning content that also serves as an important motivational factor for elaborated learning. Accordingly peer production is not only a novel method to produce e-learning content, but also an approach to empower a wide variety of professionals to the learning content production. Thus it has also an important democratic element in bringing the work-related learning content production to the actual level of users, tutors and learning supporters. Consequently the importance of peer production of e-learning content is expected to grow especially in the sector of vocational education and training as well as in professional continuing education. The problem encountered by many organisations however is, that their peer-produced learning material is neither created nor assessed in accordance with a systematic quality approach. 1 Extracted...