As colleges and universities face calls for change, the question arises: How should one go about innovating? While many, including leaders across faculty and staff, can feel pressure to provide answers from the top down, there is an alternative approach that creates solutions from the ground up: co-design with students. In this approach, students work directly with faculty in the co-creation of curricula and courses. Co-design produces new ideas and transformative experiences for its participants.

Resources on Co-Design

• Lessons from Co-Design Experiences webinar hosted by Reimagining Higher Ed

• Institutional Development via Co-Design by Ryan Derby-Talbot and Naoko Ellis

• Design Thinking in Practice During COVID-19 Outbreak by High Meadows Graduate School of Teaching and Learning

• Co-Design: An Innovation in Higher Education That Works by Ryan Derby-Talbot and Andrew Maguire

• Emerging Stronger: Lasting Impact from Crisis Innovation by Beverly Gibbs and Gary Wood

• Desirable Difficulties and Student–Faculty Partnership by KinHo Chan and Pamela Stacey

• Students as Partners in the Design and Practice of Engineering Education (slideshare.net)

• Students as Partners in the Design and Practice of Engineering Education by Gary Wood and Beverly Gibbs

• Co-Designing the Programme-Level Approach: Students in the Community … (slideshare.net) (2018)

• The Blessing and Curse of the Blank Slate by Ryan Derby-Talbot and Andrew Maguire (2020)