A Crowdsourcing Effort about Mobilizing Students to Forward Thinking of Their Studies

Abstract

The paper presents some preliminary research results, obtained within the framework of the project “Multiparticipant cooperative decision-making: consensus building vs. crowdsourcing-based decisions”, concerning the introduction to a crowdsourcing effort meant to mobilize students to forward thinking of their studies. A study was conducted by Bucharest University of Economic Studies and by Warsaw School of Information Technology under the auspices of the Polish Academy of Sciences and relevant data were collected using a questionnaire delivered to Romanian and Polish students. The results were interpreted in order to extract relevant information about expected nature of work after graduating, based on gender, nationality and university. Crowdsourcing solutions are presented in order to reveal their advantages applicable in collaborative environments.

Keywords

• decision-making
• collaborative
• crowdsourcing
• multi-participant
• online education.