Curation. Whenever I hear the term I always think of a person working in an art gallery carefully selecting pieces of work for an upcoming exhibition. But I’m also seeing it as a skill needed for modern L&D folks…
“We need curators and community managers, rather than course designers” Charles Jennings
…and certainly it’s an area (along with community management) that I want to explore more and build my own capability in. But how can I do this?
What is curation?
The starting point in wanting to learn more about how to do something is to know what it means. So here’s a couple definitions that I found online:
“Curation isn’t just about collecting or filtering…it’s about adding value through context and analysis” David Kelly
“A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online” Rohit Bhargava
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