Content Curators as the Actors in Educational Events

Abstract

The purpose of the content curator's practice is the consolidation and the structuring of Internet information (which is distributed and scattered in the different areas of social or educational activities) with the author's interpretation and commentary. The authors of this article believe there is a need to embed the content curators into educational events of different levels, such as courses of improvement of personnel qualification, network conferences and innovative courses. Content curators fulfill the important didactic, analytic and research, as well as compensatory functions, reducing overhead and forces of other users to find relevant information. Personal knowledge management (PKM) is considered as the basis of the content curation. A teacher or a student, included in the massive open online courses (or MOOCs), can act as a content curator. In general, content curation increases the subjectivity and personality of education space.