Social Design, Co-creation and Innovation

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1024101BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Department

Educatiewetenschappen

Educational team

Sarah Dury (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

24 contact hours Lecture
6 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This educational course provides students insight into co-creation, innovation and social design in the social adult educational sector. These concepts are strongly interconneceted and will be discussed during the lessons from a theoretical as well as a practice perspective. Among other things, the following topics will be handled, such as the background and meaning of the concepts participation and co-creation and providing insight into social innovation and community engaged research and learning. We will also see the background and meaning of the concept 'social design' in research and practice and deal with different methods that support 'participation, co-creation and innovation'; e.g. action research, developing personas, humancentered design.
During a few lessons guest speakers will approach these concepts from a practical perspective. In addition, the students will become familiar with these concepts through a group task.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Reader samengesteld door de docenten.

Additional info

More information on contents of lessons and teaching materials will follow during the first lesson.

Generative AI can be used in this course, further details will be provided during course activities and the Canvas Course Platform. Any use of generative AI should be properly referenced.

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

2. The student is able to frame the acquired knowledge and insights within the broader agogical inter- and transdisciplinary thinking, analyze them critically and apply them.

3. The student is able to analyze social issues (theoretical and practical), with special attention to social vulnerability and disadvantage, to reflect on them and to deal with them in professional contexts as a counsellor and innovator in policy and practice on the basis of scientific evidence, ethical considerations and with a critical attitude, also with regard to one's own approach.

5. The student is able to communicate orally and in writing to stakeholders, target groups, communities and specialists in an emancipatory manner.

14. The student has insight into coordinating professional and social networks and transitive processes aimed at system change.

18. The student focuses on institutional strengthening by critically questioning social structures and promotes democratic decision-making through participation and active citizenship.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
LEC Teamwork determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Theoretical test with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Note: Theoretical questions related to the course content and theoretical questions related to the topic of the group task also have a a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the total mark.

Within the LEC Teamwork category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Group work with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Note: The group tasks determines 50% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

- The final grading is based on the following categories:
The group tasks determines 50% of the final mark, including the presentation of this group tasks. The theoretical questions related to the topic of the group tasks determine the other 50% of the final mark.
- Partial scores cannot be transferred to the second sitting in August and the task submitted in the second sitting cannot be the same as the task submitted in the first sitting.
Theoretical questions related to the course content and theoretical questions related to the topic of the group task.
- The student must have participated in all parts of the exams – otherwise he/she receives an 'absent' on the grade sheet.
- A peer assessment (mandatory) will be used to establish the individual grading on the group work. Students must assess themselves and fellow group members on a number of criteria. The result of this is an individual adjustment factor. The adjustment factor will be used to individualise the group point (= the inherent value of the group work). This is done by multiplying the group point by the adjustment factor.
- The group work is quoted at 10/20, and has a weight of 50% in the quotation of the entire course unit.
- If a student does not complete a peer assessment within the set deadline, the lecturer may decide to use the maximum deduction of points.
- The lecturer always has the last word and can decide to increase or decrease the adjustment factor, or even not to take it into account at all, if the obtained scores turn out to be unreliable.
- This decision will in principle only be taken in exceptional cases, but will always be based on clear arguments, analyses, and/or additional observations/discussions.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context