Co-Creation

What are Co-Creation Workshops?

Introduction

Co-creation originally comes from the business sector and is a method used by companies to create new products or improve existing ones together with consumers. It involves going through a design process in which consumers can share their ideas and designs and provide feedback. Dolinger et al. define Co-creation as “process of students’ feedback, opinions, and other resources such as their intellectual capabilities and personalities, integrated alongside institutional resources” (Dollinger, Mollie; Lodge, Jason; Coates, Hamish (2018-04-27). “Co-creation in higher education: towards a conceptual model”. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education. 28 (2): 210–231. doi:10.1080/08841241.2018.1466756)

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The goal of conducting such sessions is to further understand the barriers and causes of the electronic/digital assessment from both points of view (student & teacher). It also aims at exploring possible appropriate solutions from both target groups.

The overall duration of the sessions should not exceed 2 hours. It should be held in a friendly atmosphere, allowing the participants to express themselves freely and without constraint. This is why the questions provided below should not be answered at any cost but used as general indication to obtain the information that we are looking for. The facilitator should remain as discreet as possible not to influence participants’ experience.

Examples of some questions for co-creation session for students:
– How do you feel about the assessment process at your studies?
– According to you, what is a perfect way of assessment?
– Do you consider yourself in a situation of stress during assessment? What is about your environment?
– In your opinion, what is digital assessment?
– In your opinion, what are the causes and consequences of such situation?
– What are the obstacles you are facing during digital assessment?
– What are the possible solutions to tackle digital assessment?

Examples of some questions for co-creation session for teachers:
– Are you familiar with digital forms of assessment?
– Do you have some statistics or can you speak about your personal experience? (as an expert)
– According to you, what is a perfect way of assessment?
– What can you say about the main obstacles during the digital assessment?
– In your opinion, what is digital assessment?
– What are the possible solutions to tackle digital assessment?

In the educational context, it’s important to understand that at the end of a Co-creation workshop, there isn’t a finished product ready, but rather the actual work on it only begins afterwards. The workshop serves primarily to identify, in a communicative and collaborative framework, goals and possibilities together with learners and teachers that are intended to solve a previously defined problem. In the AHEAD project, the focus was on the experiences of partner organizations during the pandemic. The question was, therefore, how digital solutions could be used in times when visits to practical training sites were not possible, so that a portion of the examinations could be conducted in this way.