Content Curation for Learning: Why It Matters, How to Do It Right, Tips Tools and Examples

by Stephen Walsh, Steve Rayson

We all need to stay on top of the latest trends and developments to be lifelong learners. Content Curation means finding the most recent and relevant content, making sense and adding value, and sharing it in the right place. Sounds easy, but it isn't. 3 million blog posts are published every day. How do you find the best content, both for yourself and your audience? In this 120-page book, we share our thinking on content curation and its role in driving continuous learning. It Why Content Curation Matters For Learning The Role of Learning Professionals in Curation A 10-Step Process for Curating Content for Learning 26 Practical Examples of Curated Content Use the tips and techniques in this book to stay relevant in any industry or sector, and if you're in Learning and Development, go beyond the buzzword of content curation to make a plan, get started, and build daily habits.

137 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 17, 2017

About the author

Professor Walsh was educated at Kingston Grammar School, St Paul’s School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. From 1963, he worked as a music journalist in London, at first freelance, writing for The Times, Daily Telegraph, and Financial Times, then from 1966 as deputy music critic of The Observer. He has broadcast regularly on musical topics for the BBC; a major feature of BBC Radio 3 programming in 1995 was his six two-hour broadcasts 'Conversations with Craft', in which he talked to Stravinsky's close associate, Robert Craft. Professor Walsh joined Cardiff University as a Senior Lecturer in Music in 1976, and now holds a personal chair in the School. He still contributes music criticism to The Independent and has since published a series of books and long papers on Bartok, Stravinsky, Kurtág and Panufnik, among others. The first volume of his major biography of Stravinsky — Stravinsky: A Creative Spring (Knopf, 1999) — won the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for the best music book published in the UK in the year 2000. Volume Two — Stravinsky: The Second Exile (also Knopf) — was published in 2006.