Open Group-Sourcing: A Social Learning Model Based on Peer Production and Feedback

Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are widely deployed nowadays in higher education institutions. They are mainly designed for formal and instructivist transmission models of learning. We propose a design for a hybrid institutional learning platform that suitably supports the simultaneous coexistence of formal/informal and instructivist/self-regulated learning. The design relies on a social collaborative learning pattern, open group-sourcing, based on peer production and feedback. To match peers´ interactions with learners´ skills, we align the visitor/resident learner model with the weighted peer production model. In this paper, we describe the different concepts that motivate our model and how it is concretely realized as a learning platform. We finally illustrate the whole with some of experiments and tests.