An online activity where an educator or educational institution proposes by way of an open call for individuals or groups to help learning or teaching. 

Crowdsourcing for Education

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Obtaining information or input into a task or project by enlisting the services of a large number of people.

Crowdsourcing

Solemon, B., Ariffin, I., Din, M. M., & Anwar, R. M. (2013). A review of the uses of crowdsourcing in higher education. International Journal of Asian Social Science, 3(9), 2066-2073.

A review of the uses of crowdsourcing in higher education. International

The practice of completing microtasks by using a group of remote workers.

Microtask Crowdsourcing

Citizen science is research contributed by nonprofessional participants via crowdsourcing. In citizen science projects, participants either collect data with mobile technologies or analyze existing data through internet-based Virtual Citizen Science (VCS) platforms, while in the accompaniment of a professional scientist or researcher.
This research improves the scientific community's capacity and increases the public's understanding of science.

Citizen science

Crowdsourcing Applications

A distributed innovation process based on managed knowledge flows across organizational boundaries.

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