Abstract
The daily life conditions, which are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic process, have caused restrictions in many important areas of life, such as education, and these restrictions have been eliminated through technology. In teaching and learning processes, the instructors who do not have digital literacy encountered problems in creating digital content by using online education tools. This study aims to design and develop an online digital content library, content distribution screen, and forum system based on the community of practice theory to the readers. The system is expected to increase the knowledge and skills of the instructors in a teacher community, who may be unfamiliar with technology in the content preparation processes and contribute to the development of quality content and higher education.
TopBackground
Designing “The Collaborative Digital Content Library (the CDCL)” in this study requires not only thinking of technical requirements in the environment but also pedagogical parts of it. A community of practice is a “Groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion, about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis.” (Wenger, 2002). We will use this communication theory to describe The CDCL with the notation of instructors' sharing content in a collaborative environment, and then getting feedback on their content and revising them based on others’ comments. In this way, the instructors will construct their practical material development knowledge in a collaborative environment.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Community Of Practice: Groups of people who regularly interact with each other and share a common space in order to better perform a certain task.
Online Course Materials: Course materials that are presented to users synchronously and asynchronously in the online environment.
Digital Content Library: A platform where instructors can enrich their lessons with the different types of media content.
Online Content Delivery: The process of delivering media over an online environment such as the internet or broadcast channels.
Web Technologies: The way that computers communicate with each other through markup languages and multimedia packages.
System Development Life Cycle: The process of following the steps of planning, analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation while developing an information system development.
Online Forum: An online page that allows people to exchange information about a particular topic.