COMBINING CROWDSOURCING AND MICROLEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
COMBINING CROWDSOURCING AND MICROLEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: The goal of this study is to combine two trends in e-learning, crowdsourcing and microlearning, to develop a new approach to learning in higher education and to gain insights regarding its impact on learning outcomes. The research was carried out on the School of business, information technology and market communications „International business-information academy“ Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina on a sample of 66 students. The experimental group of students attended student-created microcourses on the Coursmos platform, while the control group was not influenced by this variable. There was a course designed on LMS Moodle for the experimental group, where they could perform their crowdsourcing activities and communicate with crowdsourcer. The learning outcomes are operationalized through three indicators: the total number of points for the laboratory exercises and the final exam and the final grade in the course. By testing the differences between the experimental and the control group, it was found that there were no statistically significant differences between the groups. However, the mean values for the indicators the number of points achieved for the exercises and the final grades are higher in the experimental, than in the control group.

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