Innovation through co-creation: lessons from an Australian broadcaster and teachers’ collaboration in designing engaging multiplatform education resources

ABSTRACT

Lessons from a successful broadcaster and teacher community of practice can inform new approaches to online learning co-design. Co-creation occurred with Australia’s multicultural broadcaster, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and education communities, through a co-participation model of working more directly with teachers and young people. SBS also established an online learning hub and innovative digital education resources. This article analyses the curation and co-design approach used by SBS in such a partnership to propose five principles for co-design communities of practice involving broadcasters and teachers. Media producers can learn how to co-create with educators’ to meet the growing demands of students and teachers for engaging online education resources, while also furthering their own mandates as broadcasters. This is the first major study of the production and use of Australian public broadcaster online teacher resources.

KEYWORDS:

• Co-design
• co-creation
• broadcasters
• online learning
• media education
• communities of practice

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This project funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme: LP130100031.

Notes on contributors

Prue Miles

Dr Prue Miles is a Senior Lecturer within the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Dr Miles is a secondary media education specialist. She also coordinates and teaches digital technologies units in QUT's School of Education and Leadership undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Dr Miles is a Chief Investigator with QUT's Centre for Inclusive Education (C4IE) and an Affiliate Researcher with QUT's Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC). Her research investigates how students and teachers learn with multiplatform screen content and innovative teaching and learning through education partnerships.