{"title":"Blessing and curse of crowdsourcing among educational experts - a study of teachers’ willingness to contribute as a crowd","authors":"Rina Zviel Girshin, Elżbieta Gajek","doi":"10.2478/jolace-2021-0016","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Crowdsourcing is a new technique of gathering data or performing large scale tasks by outsourcing it to a wider public. Its role and potential in language education is investigated in first in its volume research - enetCollect (European Network for the Combination of Language Learning and Crowdsourcing Techniques) COST project. This paper presents the most pertinent data about highly successful crowdsourcing portals for language learning, some educational projects based on teacher’s contributions and analysis of a survey as a crowdsourcing activity. The paper analyses two surveys: a low response rate, large scale pan-European survey wherein a sample of language teachers od all station all over Europe was asked to answer some crowdsourcing related questions (Arhar Holdt et al., 2020) and a high response rate, small scale, survey among the distributors of the first survey in which they were asked to analyse the numbers and techniques they used to reach the crowd. The focus of this article is on an extension study to the teacher survey in which thousands of teachers were approached but the response rate was relatively low. While such low response data in other cases would have been perceived as a drawback and are rarely analyzed, in the context of crowdsourcing meta research this could be a goldmine of importance. The article demonstrates how educators mayor may not be willing to participate in a crowdsourcing activity.","PeriodicalId":41689,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Cultural Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Language and Cultural Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2021-0016","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Crowdsourcing is a new technique of gathering data or performing large scale tasks by outsourcing it to a wider public. Its role and potential in language education is investigated in first in its volume research - enetCollect (European Network for the Combination of Language Learning and Crowdsourcing Techniques) COST project. This paper presents the most pertinent data about highly successful crowdsourcing portals for language learning, some educational projects based on teacher’s contributions and analysis of a survey as a crowdsourcing activity. The paper analyses two surveys: a low response rate, large scale pan-European survey wherein a sample of language teachers od all station all over Europe was asked to answer some crowdsourcing related questions (Arhar Holdt et al., 2020) and a high response rate, small scale, survey among the distributors of the first survey in which they were asked to analyse the numbers and techniques they used to reach the crowd. The focus of this article is on an extension study to the teacher survey in which thousands of teachers were approached but the response rate was relatively low. While such low response data in other cases would have been perceived as a drawback and are rarely analyzed, in the context of crowdsourcing meta research this could be a goldmine of importance. The article demonstrates how educators mayor may not be willing to participate in a crowdsourcing activity.
摘要众包是一种通过将数据外包给更广泛的公众来收集数据或执行大规模任务的新技术。它在语言教育中的作用和潜力首先在其卷研究-欧洲语言学习和众包技术结合网络COST项目中进行了调查。本文介绍了关于非常成功的语言学习众包门户网站的最相关数据,一些基于教师贡献的教育项目,以及作为众包活动的调查分析。本文分析了两项调查:一项是低响应率的大规模泛欧调查,其中要求欧洲各地的语言教师样本回答一些与众包相关的问题(Arhar Holdt et al.,2020),另一项是高响应率的小规模调查,在第一次调查的经销商中进行的调查中,他们被要求分析他们用来接触人群的数字和技术。本文的重点是对教师调查的扩展研究,在该调查中,数千名教师被联系,但回复率相对较低。虽然在其他情况下,这种低响应数据会被认为是一个缺点,很少被分析,但在众包元研究的背景下,这可能是一个重要的金矿。这篇文章展示了教育工作者市长可能不愿意参与众包活动。