Crowdsourcing in the classroom

Crowdsourcing is something that I had not truly thought about in the context of the educational realm until reading, “Crowdsourcing and Self-Instruction: Turning the Production of Teaching Materials Into a Learning Objective” by Matthew Wilson (2018). According to Wilson, crowdsourcing activities promote “the ability to delegate simple tasks that draw on students’ skill sets and to use that to guide course discussions and the application of knowledge in the classroom” (Wilson, 2018, p. 400-408).


Students enjoyed the group nature of the work, an assignment where Wilson had students evaluate online content and submit knowledge to a larger project. 


I can see this being incorporated into a high school level course if students are working on gathering information for a class project. Finding and determining reputable sources is important in the modern world, and this activity would benefit the learners by learning how to identify reputable sources while gathering information for a particular assignment that can be worked on by the entire class or smaller groups.

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