Crowdsourcing Environments in E-Learning Scenario: A Classification Based on Educational and Collaboration Criteria

Recent crowd sourcing tools are changing the Education. However, each tool has a specific approach, business model and e-Learning goals. Due the increasing contribution of crowd sourcing in the e-Learning process, it has become important to study it and map the challenges intrinsic to this activity. This work discusses and classifies several crowd sourcing e-Learning tools that can be found in the Internet. We defined and used eleven dimensions to classify the 22 tools found, ranging from online Universities to marketplaces for online courses. The work contributions are: provide the first map the crowd sourcing tools and a framework for classify the future tools.