Resumen de Assessing student perceptionsof skill development and employabilityin a criminology course
Student-Staff Partnership (SSP) encapsulates the pedagogy of teaching and learning in various settingsthrough student-staff reciprocal partnership practices in the Higher Education (HE) sector. The applicationof SSP for successful redesigning and delivery of the curriculum can be traced across variousdisciplines in a number of pedagogical contexts. This paper narrates a case study of how educators canpartner with first year undergraduate students to redesign and deliver an existing module curriculumthrough co-creation of e-learning materials for teaching and learning. It also exemplifies how readily accessibledigital applications can be used in order to develop students’ digital literacy skills and promoteinquiry based learning in the process.An action research project was undertaken to assess the benefits of including specific digital applicationsin the curriculum in order to promote leaners’ digital literacy skills. The impact of SSP as an approachfor curriculum redesign, delivery and as a facilitator of research and inquiry skills in undergraduatestudents was also evaluated in the process through the co-creation of e-learning materials.A focus group was conducted to capture participants’ responses and thematic content analysis wasundertaken to data analysis. Findings suggests, using digital applications for co-creation of e-learningmaterials improved learners’ confidence in embracing and using digital applications for learning, communicationand dissemination of evidence based information through the process of inquiry and researchbased learning. Additionally, students found SSP effective as an approach for redesigning thecurriculum since it provides a platform to capture students’ expectations of the use of relevant digitalapplications in the delivery of the curriculum to facilitate learners’ digital literacy skills developmentprocesses. Furthermore, through this project a large database of co-created e-learning materials weregenerated which were integrated into the module for blended learning and future re-purpose in the deliveryof the curriculum.
