Working with students to co-create their education
How to reimagine an existing subject
Immersive technology and student co-creation allowed educators to revamp a general education course. Here’s how they did it
Lessons from an interdisciplinary community engagement course for engineers
STEM curricula in the US don’t often expose students to perspectives on culture, history and power nor equip them with effective community engagement …
How can Jenga build course co-creation?
Questions about accessibility led to events management students and educators using block towers to foster discussion of lived experiences and a sense of belonging.…
A toolkit for working with students as partners
Bringing the student voice into the creation of a toolkit to decolonise and diversify university reading lists was a key purpose of a library project at the University of…
Going for gold: how to craft a winning TEF submission
Teaching excellence rests on clear principles and agile strategy, collaboration with students and a frank approach to educational gain, write Emily Pollinger and Julian…
Film storytelling can enhance learning in STEM subjects
In the era of social technologies, authentic storytelling becomes a powerful tool for cultural and social change, a fundamental role of higher education,…
Fostering student co-creation to give back to the community
Engaging in local civic projects offers students meaningful learning opportunities, fosters co-creation and supports the community at large. Here, Martha Sullivan outlines the…
From cohort to community: how to support student-led initiatives
Building a strong cohort starts with supporting students directly. Here, we, as student and staff co-authors in the humanities, share insights on how to encourage solutions…
Empowering students through co-creation and reflective experiential learning
By giving students agency in course content, the University of Edinburgh presents a fascinating case study of how student-led experiential learning can be used to…
Co-creation and empowerment: pathways to better student engagement
Effective approaches universities can take to promote equity and improve student learning outcomes and employability, shared by a team from the University of…
Co-creation: how to find the ‘super’ in supervision
Co-creation can bring together research supervisors and doctoral students to unpick the tensions and challenges in the supervisory relationship and seek solutions, researchers…
Co-creating an interdisciplinary well-being module for all students
Elena Riva and Wiki Jeglinska explain how academics can work with students to co-create well-being modules that span multiple disciplines and support students’ self-care,…
Co-creating with students: practical considerations and approaches
Stacy Katz explains how to develop meaningful learning experiences by collaborating with students, rather than determining for them
Enabling staff-student co-creation of experiential learning at scale
Simon Riley and Gavin McCabe share a reflective learning and assessment framework for staff and students to co-create experiential learning that is scalable and effective
Co-creation of curricula with students: a case study
Eric Tsui outlines a method he uses to enhance student learning through the co-creation of new scenarios for curriculum development in their discipline
Co-creation does not need to stop because we’ve moved online
Co-creation is far more about mindset than suitability for a particular setting, and the evidence demonstrating its benefits is growing, says Catherine Bovill
Negotiated assessment in online teaching – the same learning outcomes measured in different ways
Authentic assessment is one of the biggest challenges associated with online teaching and learning. Here Katherine Baverstock explains why negotiated assessment…
Designing back from the future: building scenarios to engage students with global challenges
Anke Schwittay shows how design methods such as scenario building can help students think creatively about diverse challenges and imagine responses to them
Self-directed learning is becoming the forgotten ingredient in HE
In the heady rush to extol the virtues of asynchronous learning, we are watering down the main element of students’ learning experience, says Linda Kaye
Students as educators: the value of assessed blogs to showcase learning
Assessed blogs can help translate the thrill of interactive learning into tangible outcomes that enrich and showcase students’ knowledge. Here’s how to do it
We are not alone: using participatory group activities to engage students in sustainability
Natalie Kopytko and Susannah Sallu detail how participatory activities used for stakeholder engagement can help motivate students to learn about sustainability online
Generating immersive, large-scale teaching experiences in video games
Richard Fitzpatrick and Thomas Little offer insights for designing and developing immersive learning experiences using video games, based on their…
