【Report】

Curation Service for Recurrent Education
リカレント教育におけるキュレーションサービス

Masahiko Takai
Graduate School Student, Digital Hollywood
University

Curation service for recurrent education should add value, since there are huge amount of non digital and digital contents
in various vehicles in the market. Learning curator optimizes the learning contents according to learner’s needs and verifies
the learning log of the designated contents. Curation service supports the working adults to learn effectively and efficiently,
and provide verified learning logs, which can be consolidated in the learning record store.
Keywords：Learning log, Study Log, LRS, Curation, Recurrent Education

1. Introductionneeds. Working adults usually have sufficient informal

With the rapid change of technology, recurrent education

learning opportunities at work or at home. They can learn not

is becoming important for adults to update themselves. There

only from books and schools, but also from their colleagues

are various learning contents available in the market, notand experience, in the form of informal learning. Working

only using non-digital vehicles such as books, magazines,

adults are more likely to learn by themselves independently,

coaches, schools, study groups, but also digital vehicles

without a classroom. The challenge of informal learning issuch as websites, online courses, Youtube, social media, etc.

that progress is not recorded, contents not reflected, andThe challenge is more to optimize the learning contents andresults are not always validated.

vehicles based on the learner, based on the past learnings.

Thirdly, working adults have less time to allocate for

Past learning records can be accumulated and grasped

learning than full time students, as they have daily work inin the learning logs. I would like to use the term“learning

the workplace and at home. They may not be afforded tolog”, not“study log”, as learning log is recognized to havelearn by trial and error, and need to learn effectively anda wider scope than “study log”, including not only formal

efficiently in their spare time. On the other hand, somelearning (normal study), but also non-formal and informal

working adults have capability to pay for the curation service

learning. Non-formal learning is an education provided bythemselves, as well as their company, as long as the curation

institutions outside of the formal education system, andservice provides benefits exceeding the costs.

informal learning refers to non-structured learning processes
from daily activities. (Villalba, 2016)

3. Learning Log
Learning logs are becoming easier to accumulate and to

2. Premises for Recurrent Education

utilize with the development of the learning management

Premises of recurrent education for working adults cansystem (LMS) and the learning record store (LRS). Learning

be quite different from those of formal school education forlogs can be accumulated in the individual application as wellstudents. Firstly, the objectives have variations, based on theas LRS. The quality of the learning log can be maintained

individuals. Formal education institutions are usually following

with the verification process.

the guidelines to grant degrees. Especially for compulsory

Learning logs should be accumulated not only fromeducation, the government provides specific objectives andformal education, but also from informal and non-formal

guidelines for the contents. For recurrent education, theeducation. Learning logs contain the real learning activities

learner has his or her objectives and preferences of his orof the learner. The Japanese government already announced

her own and the learning starting base line is different, soto start studying to accumulate learning logs from formal

the contents should be selectively chosen, based on theeducation. (Ministry of Education, 2019) So, there is value

individual, unless the learner is pursuing certain certificationto accumulate logs from informal and non-formal educationor academic degrees.

as well, considering the consolidation in the overall LRS.

S e c o n d l y, w o r k i n g a d u l t s h a v e f e w e r o p p o r t u n i t i e s
to participate in formal or informal education classes.
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4. Learning Curator as a Service
The learning curator is like a project manager of thelearner’s learning project, who does not go through thecontents themselves with the learner, but helps to choose
and optimize the contents, highlights risks and issues, andevaluates the progress. Learning curators are expected
to provide following two services; advise the appropriate
content selections for the learner to optimize, and validate
the learning logs of the learner.
There are many learning contents, digital and non-digital,
using various vehicles in the same theme. Learning curators
advise the next learning content and vehicle, based on
the learning log and the learner’s objectives. Learning
curators should be quite knowledgeable about the contents
in the designated field in order to advise.

Digital contents

are expected to go beyond the language barrier in thenear future, due to the recent progress of neural machinetranslation technology.
A learning curator who advises the learning contents
is in the best position to validate the learning activitiesof the designated learning contents. However, a learning
curator is not in the position to train the contents to thelearner or to following up the progress like a coach (or ateacher or mentor). Coaches (or teachers or mentors) may
have conflicts of interest to evaluate the completion of thedesignated learning activities, but a learning curator can be
more neutral during the evaluation.

5. My Current Standpoint
I know it depends on the quality and enthusiasm of thelearning curator as well as the recurrent education learner.
This remote service can be provided efficiently and effectively
utilizing learning log and online communication tools. I am
developing a business plan to establish a feasible learning
curator service for recurrent education.

【References】

Ministry of Education of Japan文部科学省（2019）「新時代の学びを.
支える先端技術活動推進方策（最終まとめ）」(2019年6月25日)
Sclater, Niall (2017). Learning Analytics Explained : New York,NY; Routledge
Villalba, Ernesto (2016). The Council Recommendation on
Validation of Non-Formal and Informal Learning: Implications for
Mobility Journal for International Mobility

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リカレント教育におけるキュレーションサービス
高井 雅彦( デジタルハリウッド大学大学院 院生 )大人の学びの効果を上げるには、学びのコンテンツをきちんと選択し、学びの状況を認知することが必要である。この学習のパーソナル化、学校以外の学習の有意化に貢献するのは、ラーニングキューレーションサービスである。ラーニングキュレーターの主要な役割は、学ぶ人に合ったコンテンツを選ぶことだけではなく、該当コンテンツの学習完了状況を確認することにある。リカレントの学びの目的はそれぞれであるが、既に多様で大量な学習コンテンツも出回ってきており、また、学びの記録をきちんと保管・活用する仕組みも技術的に可能になってきている。
キーワード：学習ログ、ラーニングログ、ラーニングキュレーター

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