CREATING AND SHARING CONTENT THROUGH OPEN VIRTUAL PLATFORMS: THE STUDENT PERSPECTIVE

This paper focuses on a project to encourage student-created learning at the University of Southampton Business School. The pedagogical theory of socio-technical learning provides context for the ensuing discussion of student-created learning, which has been directly authored by two of the students themselves. They present a student perspective on the increasingly central role played by technology in engaging fellow first year undergraduates more actively in their learning, integrated with the part that the students themselves play in the knowledge creation process. The students conclude by reflecting on their experience in terms of the key successes and challenges faced by the project thus far.