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Authors: Elizabeth Ellis, and Katharine Reedy

Theme: Empowerment in Learning Technology

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Partnering with students in curriculum development enables institutions to co-create and co-design engaging learning and teaching experiences with them. For students it provides the opportunity to take ownership of their learning, have a direct impact on early development work, and experience professional engagement. This may be used as evidence of skills development and collaborative working in portfolios or continuing professional development. For staff it provides vital insight, helping to build strong evidence-based learning and teaching design practices.

This poster, on the theme of Empowerment in Learning Technology, will introduce conference participants to the Student Curriculum Design Panel. This panel, which has completed its pilot year, comprises 461 distance learning students who have volunteered to take part in activities such as workshops, surveys, and various kinds of usability and experience testing. The interaction is intended to mimic face-to-face student-teacher informal discussions.

The poster demonstrates the opportunities explored and challenges experienced, and will offer up some key lessons learned and tips for implementation. In keeping with the conference call, Beyond Islands of Innovation, participants will receive a poster handout with an activity designed to demonstrate the relevance of the panel concept in any institution, and they will be able to share this online via social media, building connections and community through engagement.

References

Reedy, K. and Goodfellow, R. (2012) Digital and information literacy framework. Available at: http://www.open.ac.uk/libraryservices/pages/dilframework/ (accessed 27 March 2017).

Vince, D. and Ellis, E. (2016), Students enabling TEL innovation: a pilot. Available at: http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/47648 (accessed 27 March2017).

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