Students' Perspectives on Co-Creation Opportunities Within Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral Level Education Preparation Programs

This study examines Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral students’ experiences with co-creation activities in education programs. Responding to voiced student concerns, it seeks to uncover ways in which students wish to share ownership of the learning process. Additionally, this study aims to contribute students’ thoughts to the existing co-creation literature. Incorporating evidence from a survey and multiple participant interviews, this study demonstrates that students across all three levels of study wish to experience an increase in co-creation activities, but the type and extent vary by level of study. It argues for instructors and overseeing institutions to negotiate, not prescribe, certain aspects of the learning process. Additionally, this study introduces the Co-Creation Continuum, a tool used to identify the type and extent of co-creation occurring in a class. Students and instructors can gauge the extent to which co-creation occurs with respect to the content and structure, assessment criteria and grading process, and the implementation of student feedback. These categories and levels of co-creation can support instructors and students in negotiating components of the learning process.