Dear HELTASA member
CPUT, UCT and UWC invite you to join their 6-topic free online course “Designing for Social Justice Partnerships: Co-Creation across Difference”. The course is designed to support student-staff partnerships in higher education. Intended applicants need to register in pairs, a student with an academic or professional support staff working together on any current partnership project.

Course overview
This free 12-week online short course, developed with DHET funding, aims to promote design approaches that welcome learner participation throughout the teaching and learning process, starting with involving learners and other stakeholders in co-design, facilitation, and research on teaching, learning, and assessment. It will explore the potential of including learner voice in the design, creation, and quality assurance of courses, course content, informal and extracurricular activities, and research activities, as a powerful remedy for injustice, allowing previously marginalised and silenced voices to be heard. The course will discuss the opportunities and challenges of co-design approaches, such as increased responsiveness to student needs, as well as tensions between more participatory and co-creative approaches and institutional requirements and limited access to resources. Unpacking equity-oriented learning design approaches will help participants navigate power differentials in these contexts. Staff need to register with at least one student.