Students as Co-Developers of Courses in Higher Education

• Published in: Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Learning (Online) pp. 448 - XIX
• Main Authors: Tøndel, Marte, Kiønig, Linda, Schult, Ingunn, Holen, Stig, Vold, Tone
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Kidmore End Academic Conferences International Limited 01.07.2018
• Subjects: Adults; Colleges & universities; Cooperation; Course Content; Customer services; Experiential learning; Health; Higher education; Knowledge management; Learning Processes; Modules; Municipalities; Qualitative research; Students; Teaching Methods; New York; San Francisco California; Norway; United States > US
• ISSN: 2048-8882; 2048-8890

At The Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, there has been offered a series of courses for Health Managers. The courses were originally developed as a response to a demand from the Norwegian Directorate of Health to make Health Managers and municipalities across Norway able to handle a Health organisation reform called "Samhandlingsreformen" - the interaction reform of Health Care in Norway. The municipalities are paying customers, and were originally offered four different courses. However, after the agreed courses were held, the demand for more courses became apparent. At this time, it was important to seek to cooperate with the health managers in order to develop the next modules. In addition, the students from the previous modules suggested new areas where felt they needed more input. From a service point of view, this can be compared to principles of value co-creation from the domain of Service Dominant Logic. Utilizing the input from the students, new modules were developed and executed. The research presented in this paper, show the results from survey and interviews with the students regarding how they perceived to be codevelopers and how this has affected their learning outcome from the new modules (courses).