Educational Content Co-Creation Between Experts and Students

Abstract

This paper describes the idea of the creation of a tool that will help both students and teachers to share their knowledge and co-create academic content. This tool’s purpose is to make knowledge more interesting by making students a part of the course design and improve the communication between students and teachers. This way, students are becoming more involved in the process and teachers can understand their students better. Each student will have the choice to pick a layout and method according to his favourite teaching method and the content will be adjusted, according to her preferences. During this study, we examined the idea of co-creation in the academic environment and we gathered the opinions of both teachers and students about what they are expecting from this tool and what are their thoughts about it. We discuss every scenario and the benefits in a classroom, taking care of any learning traits, difficulties or special needs of the user. The main goal is to improve the collaboration between experts and non-experts, to create an ideal team environment and to evaluate if an ideal work environment can make an impact during the learning experience.