Campus Talks by Times Higher Education Campus Talks: How to make co-creation work in your teaching
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Dec 11, 2025 Catherine Bovill, a professor at the University of Edinburgh and expert in co-creation in education, shares her insights on student engagement. She highlights the importance of building trust in teacher-student relationships to enable co-creation. Catherine provides practical examples of co-creation strategies, like student-designed assessments. She also addresses common concerns about workload and student choices, emphasizing the richness that diverse student experiences bring to learning. The discussion includes the relevance of co-creation in today's digital and AI-driven landscape.
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Start With Trusting Relationships
- Build trusting teacher–student relationships before attempting co-creation so students will accept unfamiliar approaches.
- Be transparent about intentions and expect co-creation to deepen relationships over time.
Begin With Small, Practical Moves
- Take small early steps like learning students' names and offering simple choices to move toward co-creation.
- These modest actions signal care and begin shifting classroom dynamics toward shared agency.
Large-Class Vote On Assessment Weighting
- An engineering lecturer with 400 students let the class vote on assessment weightings and adjusted the exam weighting accordingly.
- Students valued simply being asked and reported feeling listened to, despite small changes.