Co-creation in Undergraduate Engineering Programs: effects of communication and student participation

• Autores: Gabriela Ribes Giner, Rosario Perello Marín, Odette Pantoja Díaz
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 34, no. 1, 2018, págs. 236-247
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of participation and communication of students in co-creation within thecontext of Higher Education institutions. This co-creation approach is evaluated as an alternative in engineeringeducation, being useful for leading the educational process, research activities, administration support, and thecommunity-industry relationship. A previous literature review was carried out to identify the theoretical confirmationof the relationshipbetween the identified parameters (communication, participation, and co-creation),and a questionnairewas applied to 325 engineering students from 12 Ecuadorian universities with the objective of studying their behaviortoward collaborative practices. The principal statistical tools used were exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis andstructural equation model. The results verify that engineering student participation and communication have a significantand positive influence on co-creation as a generator of student satisfaction, especially in the study context. A co-creationvision at higher education—from the perspective that students are the center of the learning process—reinforces theeducation quality principles in an innovative way. The article concludes with the different managerial implications of thestudy, including the effectiveness of creating participation and communication channels between the university andengineering students with the objective of promoting co-creation as a managerial alternative.Keywords:engineering students; co-creation; higher education; participation; communication; structural equation modeling