A DESIGN OF COMPLEMENTARY COMMUNITY CURRENCIES FOR EDUCATION

Josep Lluis de la Rosa, Joan Batlle, Elisabet Batlle, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy

2009

Abstract

This paper proposes a design for complementary community currencies for education communities to boost cooperation of the more advanced students with the less advanced ones. Its design follows two goals: motivating students to learn by doing extra homework (effort) and share knowledge with younger students (tutoring), and shifting the role of teachers towards a more supervisory, tutoring and dynamic tasks. The hypothesis, following a Brazilian example, is that colleges may accept as payment for their tuitions not only conventional legal currencies, but also educational complementary currencies. The traditional grants policies based on personal effort will be paid with bunnies, and modern community tutoring effort will be paid with knowls. The bunnies and knowls will be obtained as a reward of doing homework and providing help for homework, respectively, and as an expected result, students will have more solid knowledge background at all levels resulting from their boosted personal and community effort.

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in Harvard Style

de la Rosa J., Batlle J., Batlle E., Szymanski B. and Krishnamoorthy M. (2009). A DESIGN OF COMPLEMENTARY COMMUNITY CURRENCIES FOR EDUCATION . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8111-82-1, pages 410-414. DOI: 10.5220/0001970704100414


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu09,
author={Josep Lluis de la Rosa and Joan Batlle and Elisabet Batlle and Boleslaw K. Szymanski and Mukkai Krishnamoorthy},
title={A DESIGN OF COMPLEMENTARY COMMUNITY CURRENCIES FOR EDUCATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2009},
pages={410-414},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001970704100414},
isbn={978-989-8111-82-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - A DESIGN OF COMPLEMENTARY COMMUNITY CURRENCIES FOR EDUCATION
SN - 978-989-8111-82-1
AU - de la Rosa J.
AU - Batlle J.
AU - Batlle E.
AU - Szymanski B.
AU - Krishnamoorthy M.
PY - 2009
SP - 410
EP - 414
DO - 10.5220/0001970704100414