Understanding design principles of music and health care education as interdisciplinary field and developing an online education program: a qualitative study

How can we bring better co-design into on-line Learning Design practice? How can co-design foster creativity and collaboration for adult online learning education?
Co-design has been used to create solutions for some of the most challenging problems we face in society. Government and public policy, community, healthcare and human services have all made use of the principles, processes and practical tools co-design can bring, creating a legacy of research and toolkits to learn from and apply. In education, we see examples in initiatives involving students as partners, co-design applied in learning transformation initiatives with staff and students, and collaborations involving teachers, industry experts, students, technical experts, media experts and learning designers to create new courses and programs.
The year 2020 changed our educational landscape dramatically, as institutions were forced to move courses online due to lockdowns caused by the COVID19 pandemic (Kimmel et al., 2020). In this situation, the reason to go online was different from the usual scaling up and making educational offerings accessible to broader audiences. As courses that were not initially designed for remote instruction were forced to go online, unanticipated difficulties arose (Serhan, 2020).

Faculty Supervisor:

Teresa Chan

Student:

Partner:

Vuesprit College

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Information and Communications Technology; New and Digital Media

University:

McMaster University

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