Work package 4: Teacher support

This work package is dedicated to supporting teachers in integrating co-creation into their course.
Coordinated by Carola van der Muren, a group of students (TAs) support the planning, communication and technical setup of the pilots. And also publishing of co-created open education materials is supported (when applicable). Over the duration of the course, we stay in reach of the students both for technical issues and to hear their feedback regarding the co-creation parts in the course.

Preparation phase
First, we have an intake meeting to understand the wishes and needs and decide if a course can become a COMBINE pilot. Then there is a meeting with the lecturers to discuss how co-creation can be integrated with the course goals and structure, and how it will be assessed. Furthermore subsequent meetings help develop that plan into a concrete implementation, finding the solutions that suit the course and the students the most.

During the course
At the start of the course, we provide the students with the necessary manuals and information about the tools they will use, and the Copyright considerations when making open materials. We also attend the first lecture, and introduce the aim of the project, and the part it will play in the course. We also provide support in the installation of the software used for co-creation, and encourage students to reach out to us for technical support throughout the course.

When it comes to making co-creation a successful learning method, student input is crucial. For this reason, we organize feedback sessions sporadically throughout the course, and ask students to share their experiences with co-creation in the course, and their opinion on what they would like to see change. This feedback is really valuable both to fix problem in the course organisation before they impact student’s experiences, and to help shape the COMBINE project going forward.

After the course
At the end of the course, we stay in contact with teachers to support the final revisions of the co-created open education materials, and if they choose to publish them in some form, help with that process. A few weeks after the course, we organise an evaluation meeting to discuss the outcomes of the course, the feedback from the students and to get input from the teacher(s).

The “TA” team¶

Coen Heyning is a Msc Applied Physics student (TU Delft). During his bachelor at TU Delft he did the Minor Education including an internship as a highschool teacher, he has also been a teaching assistant (TA) for a number of Bachelor’s courses. These education experiences gave him hands-on experience with teaching and supporting other teachers.

Lucía Calzado García is a Master’s student in Nanobiology with an interest in Biophysics, Data Science and education. She joined the project as TA this year and has worked on supporting pilots, open interactive textbooks and promotion.

Daniel Lippens is a belgian mechanical engineering student, with a background in business administration and a desire to create innovative solutions for medical challenges. Within the team he offers support in internal communication and collaboration between the workpackages.

Linde van Santen is a Bsc Applied Physics student with a passion for problem solving. Through her committee work, participation in an honours program and working as a teaching assistant she gained experience in teamwork, organisation and education. In this project, all these aspects come together: she is currently working on communication and design, and will soon also help on the technical side.

Jesse Wessteijn is a MSc Computer and Embedded Systems Engineering student at TU Delft. He is interested in all types of coding, from embedded systems to web applications and joined this project to further develop the Jupyter Books environment and educational tools.