Crowdsourcing is used to produce educational content or resources. This is a cost and time effective alternative to publishing and other traditional methods of educational content production. It is also a typically a better alternative, in terms of content quality, to using language models to produce similar content. 

Creating Content in Crowdsourcing for Education 

Crowdsourcing uses learners to take part in activities that are too challenging or complex for traditionally crowdsourced groups. Because these tasks often require domain specific expertise, the crowd acquires "industry strength" or "state-of-the-practice" experience. 

Providing Practical Experience through Crowdsourcing for Education

Crowdsourcing is used to provide assessment and feedback on learning. Because of large-scale enrollment and the challenge of providing feedback to scale, crowdsourcing can be used to provide more feedback and assessment. It also has the benefit of potentialy providing better quality feedback and assessment as the crowd provides better diversity in perspective. 

Augmenting Abundant Feedback with Crowdsourcing for Education

Crowdsourcing allows the learner to get support from the crowd. The crowd can provide solutions to problems, hints to learning, and even menotring to a learner. 

Exchanging Complementary Knowledge with Crowdsourcing for Education

- Creating educational contents (resources)
- Providing practical experience (activities)
- Exchanging complementary knowledge (support)
- Augmenting abundant feedback (evaluation) 

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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

Jiang, Y., Schlagwein, D., & Benatallah, B. (2018). A Review on Crowdsourcing for Education: State of the Art of Literature and Practice. PACIS, 180

A Review on Crowdsourcing for Education: State of the Art of Literature and Practice

- Crowd Wisdom
- Crowd Creation
- Crowd Funding
- Crowd Voting

Types of crowdsourcing used education

Crowdsourcing use-cases in education

Those involved in Crowdsourcing for Education include:
- Organizers
- Learners
- Contributors
- IT platforms

Actors in Crowdsourcing for Education

How crowdsourcing tasks are arranged often varies. They are typically arranged in these three ways.
- Distributed
- Collaborative
- Competitive

Organization of Crowdsourcing for Education

Peoples motivation to take part in crowdsourcing for education can vary. These motivations include: 
- Altruism
- Outward Recognition
- Challenge
- Sense of Community
- Virtual Compensation
- Monetary Compensation
- Enjoyment
- Requirement

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