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How to Support Co-creation in Higher Education: The Validation of a Questionnaire

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  • Miranda de Hei
  • Inge Audenaerde

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In this study, we regard co-creation as a collaborative process where students, lecturers and working field professionals from outside the university jointly develop innovative products, processes or knowledge. In co-creation all stakeholders equally contribute to the collaborative process and aim to create beneficial outcomes for each participant. Co-creation can be used as a valuable pedagogical method to support continuous interaction between learning and working in higher education to foster innovation. However, this process is not necessarily mastered by co-creation groups. In order to identify which components of this collaboration process can be further improved, we developed a questionnaire to assess co-creation processes in higher education. Students, lecturers and working field professionals participating in co-creation projects completed the questionnaire. We validated the questionnaire using a principal component analysis. The seven extracted scales proved to be sufficiently reliable. The final questionnaire consists of seven components- positive interdependence, individual accountability, collaboration, shared mental models, safe and supporting conditions, creative community, and group evaluation. We described how the tool can be used in practice.

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  • Miranda de Hei & Inge Audenaerde, 2023. "How to Support Co-creation in Higher Education: The Validation of a Questionnaire," Higher Education Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 13(3), pages 1-54, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:ibn:hesjnl:v:13:y:2023:i:3:p:54
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    1. Berna Tarı Kasnakoğlu & Hande Mercan, 2022. "Co-creating positive outcomes in higher education: are students ready for co-creation?," Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(1), pages 73-88, January.
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