About the course
This free 12-week online short course, offered through Heltasa and developed with DHET funding, aims to promote design approaches that welcome learner participation throughout the teaching and learning process, starting with involving learners and other stakeholders in co-design, facilitation, and research on teaching, learning, and assessment. It will explore the potential of including learner voice in the design, creation, and quality assurance of courses, course content, informal and extracurricular activities, and research activities, as a powerful remedy for injustice, allowing previously marginalised and silenced voices to be heard. The course will discuss the opportunities and challenges of co-design approaches, such as increased responsiveness to student needs, as well as tensions between more participatory and co-creative approaches and institutional requirements and limited access to resources. Unpacking equity-oriented learning design approaches will help participants navigate power differentials in these contexts. Staff need to register with at least one student.
Certification options:
Two types of certificates will be issued for this course:
- Attended: Attend 80% of webinars
- Passed: Attend 80% of webinars, submit coursework (individual and group work) as required, complete the course evaluation, and successfully complete the final individual assignment.
A letter of recognition of participation will be issued to participants who attend 80% of webinars, submit coursework, and complete the course evaluation (no final assignment submitted). Attendance at 80% of bi-weekly webinars is compulsory for successful completion of the course.
Course Content
- Week 0: Orientation
- Week 1&2: Building Bridges together: The Philosophy of Ubuntu and Social Justice
- Week 3&4: Student-Staff Partnerships: Models and Case Studies
- Week 5&6: Designing for Socially Just Learning Experiences
- Week 7&8: Co-Creation Across Difference/Reflection
- Week 9&10: Ethical Foundations: Nurutring Integrity in SSPs
- Week 11&12: Presentation and Reflection
Learning objectives
By the end of this short course participants should be able to:
- Advocate for the potential for co-creation in learning design
- Select a model of Student-Staff Partnerships (SSPs) appropriate for their context
- Select a theoretical approach to SSPs framed by a concern for social justice appropriate to their context
- Co-create/Co-design a SSP intervention for their context
- Apply ethical practices in relation to SSPs and/or address ethical issues/dilemmas/tensions when designing for SSPs in their contexts
- Apply skills to design, implement/facilitate and evaluate co-creation projects and processes in contexts of inequality
- Recognise interpersonal dynamics, including those of privilege, power and intersectional identity, and integrate this recognition into interactions with others.
Enrolment Requirements
Staff need to register with at least one student.
More information
Phone: +27 (0)21 650 7003
Email: pgbold@uct.ac.za
Co-Creation Across Difference
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