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Enhancing student experience through partnership and co-creation in a post-pandemic learning environment – a longitudinal study

Gonzalez-Buelga, Alicia; Trahar, Sheila; Wharton, Mike; Lazar, Irina; (2024) Enhancing student experience through partnership and co-creation in a post-pandemic learning environment – a longitudinal study. Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change , 10 (2) pp. 1-22. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper reports on the evolution and value of staff-student partnerships in a 4-year longitudinal study involving a cohort of Mechanical Engineering students at a UK University throughout their undergraduate journey from academic year 2020/21 to 2023/24. The research is divided into 4 phases, one per academic year, and is woven around three primary objectives: i) capturing and understanding students' perceptions of online learning, ii) collaboratively developing enhanced online/blended delivery strategies with students, and iii) reflecting on the transformative impact of this partnership on all those involved (staff and students). The students’ involvement increased with each phase of the study. Students participating in this study found it exceptionally rewarding as they felt their voices were heard, enabling them to actively shape the educational process. They acquired valuable research skills that would have otherwise remained unexplored. For the academic staff involved, this partnership enriched their teaching practices, establishing collaboration with students as a standard approach in their education-focused research. They actively contributed to training both fellow academics and students within their institution in conducting engineering educational research. The authors conclude that the power of a staff-student partnership in reshaping the landscape of higher education was transformative for all those involved

Type: Article
Title: Enhancing student experience through partnership and co-creation in a post-pandemic learning environment – a longitudinal study
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://journals.studentengagement.org.uk/index.ph...
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright (c) 2024 The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Copyright is held by the journal. The author has full permission to publish to their institutional repository. Articles are published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Keywords: Blended learning; co-creation; partnership
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204941
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