Collective Learning Resources: Connecting Social-Learning Practices in Deviantart to Art Education

Abstract

As social technologies burgeon, the pressure on education to respond also builds. Little is known about the structures that sustain peer-to-peer learning over large “informal” learning environments. This study identified two specific kinds of user-made resources that were designed to stimulate learning among online peers. These structures are surprising in their formality, use of multimodal skills, and sophisticated conception of pedagogy. They offer concrete insight into how learning is occurring in an online collective of youth artists and how those artists understand teaching and learning. This study sought to answer two broad questions: (1) what art related skills, concepts, and dispositions do members acquire on deviantArt.com? and (2) which New Literacy practices do members use in the acquisition of art-related skills, concepts, knowledge, and dispositions? Using a New Literacy Studies framework, this study identified seven educational implications for teaching art in the 21st century.

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