Reducing Procrastination Without Sacrificing Students' Autonomy Through Optional Weekly Presentations of Student-Generated Content

SIGCSE. A design-research study on reducing procrastination while preserving autonomy in a learnersourcing course.

Authors: Iman YeckehZaare, Sean Shixuan Chen, Tirdad Barghi · Venue/status: SIGCSE · Year: 2023 · DOI

This SIGCSE paper reports an iterative course-design intervention for a collaborative question-generation and mapping course. The central design tension was reducing procrastination without removing the autonomy that made student-generated content personally meaningful. The paper expands the learning-infrastructure thread beyond retrieval practice: contributor motivation, optional presentation, peer visibility, and timing all affect whether a shared knowledge system receives high-quality student contributions throughout a semester.

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