Creating Learning Materials by Learners Themselves Using Partial Bookmarking for Web Curation

Abstract

Creating a learning material by a learner oneself is an effective way of nurturing their ability to become independent-minded learners. Although web curation is a familiar way for the learner to interact with up-to-date knowledge regarding several subjects, recent popular applications for web curation, e.g., SNSs, are deficient in their ability to support free-form curation of the web contents for authoring the learning material. We have developed a new authoring environment by employing an enhanced web browser which enables a new kind of bookmarking, named partial bookmarking, which supports learners in collecting any portion of a web page and allows the learner to organize these portions simultaneously in any layout or format. We have conducted a case study of 15 university students using a developed environment for creating learning materials and then derived considerable design patterns of web curation by means of a visual grounded theory analysis.