October 7, 2013 – Curation Checklist: 17 Criteria for Assessing Quality and Value:
- Contains a selection of current, engaging, high quality, relevant, original content of the best information that adds value to the field/industry as a whole
- Content enhances demonstrated expertise
- Content is from verified, credible authoritative sources
- Content is identified, verified, synthesized, contextualized and summarized by an individual human mind
- Content is organized using tags and has been sorted and ranked
- Content is pulled from multiple sources with different viewpoints and angles to accurately encompass the subject
- Content has been digested and mixed together before distribution to build a value-added final product
- Information is organized in the best way to help learners make sense of the topic and aids in scaffolding student learning leading to a greater level of understanding for the learner
- Allows learners to construct their own meaning by allowing them to create new relationships between different information-elements
- Supports discovery and comprehension of a topic from multiple complementary viewpoints
- Content identifies a niche and consistently stays within context of the overall theme to support a central idea
- Content feeds a network with meaningful information and helps readers stay current with information trends.
- Content is generated by user/participants who both consume and produce within a network
- Content reflects passion and expertise
- Content is presented with a creative, clean, attractive layout and design with any graphics used enhancing value
- Content includes multiple mediums such as text, images, and video from across multiple platforms such as news websites, blogs, social networks
- Consistent and sufficient attribution given to original authors and creators
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