co-creation – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading Zeivots et al. (2026) on “Assessment design through co-design: reimagining assessment design practices in higher education”

mglessmer — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:28:02 +0000

When browsing Zeivots et al. (2026)’s article “Assessment design through co-design: reimagining assessment design practices in higher education“, one sentence caught my eye: “Students could see how their input mattered without the expectation that every suggestion would be enacted“. Since I am currently really interested in partnership and negotiations there, I then had to read […]

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Thinking about citizen- and active student participation, inspired by Arnstein (1969), Varwell (2022), Biesta (2026), and others

mglessmer — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:18:43 +0000

Since listening to Gerry’s defense of his PhD thesis the other day, I have been thinking about partnership a lot, and how we need to practice partnership also in order to practice democracy. And I vaguely remembered having seen an article where the typical “ladder” is wrapped into a circle, so that rather than being […]

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Notes from Gerald Decelles III’s trial lecture & PhD defense

mglessmer — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:28:40 +0000

Last week, I had a great day listening first to the trial lecture and then the defense of Gerald Decelles III’s PhD thesis, and it was so inspiring! Both his trial lecture and defense were such excellent presentations that I have to compile my notes into a blog post to process my thoughts. In the […]

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Now published! “Student views on active learning in the Geoscience curriculum” by Kordts et al. (2025)

mglessmer — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:50:50 +0000

In this article, we investigate students’ experiences with active learning at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen, Norway (where we have put a lot of effort recently into introducing co-creation). We find that students’ views on active learning vary significantly. Generally, students distinguish between active learning as a concept (which they like) and […]

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Currently reading Gravett (2022)’s book “Relational Pedagogies”, and thinking about parasocial bonding

mglessmer — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:36:51 +0000

It all started out with me listening to one of my all-time favourite podcasts, Teaching in Higher Ed, to an episode on designing video with intention and authenticity. Actually, it started before, with me reading about “Relational Pedagogies” by Gravett (2022), but I could not find a way to start a blog post about the […]

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Currently reading Stensaker & Matear (2025) on “Student involvement in quality assurance: Perspectives and practices towards persistent partnerships”

mglessmer — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:50:38 +0000

Including the student perspective in quality assurance of teaching is required by law in Sweden (and other places), and this means that they are asked to respond to surveys at the end of every course, have seats on all boards of education and others, and have strong, institutionalised student organisations. But of course there are […]

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Co-create your own adventure — our presentation at MNT 2025

mglessmer — Mon, 05 May 2025 10:49:41 +0000

Kjersti Daae and myself have a poster at MNT today (kindly presented by Anna-Marie Strehl). Below is the text we wrote for the conference proceedings. We have run a 3-year project financed by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, HK-dir, under the program for student active learning, on implementing student-staff collaborations to co-create […]

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Currently reading McBrady (2025) on “Don’t Set Goals, Set Systems: Using Decoding the Disciplines and Students as Partners to Strengthen a History Department and its Teacher Candidates”

mglessmer — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:35:42 +0000

I decided to read this article because I am thinking about both “decoding the disciplines” and “students as partners” in different contexts, and I wanted to see how they come together, but then I got really excited about the “don’t set goals, set systems” part that I feel is often missing in my work. McBrady […]

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On all the levels of decision making when sharing responsibility for learning (after Heron, 1992)

mglessmer — Thu, 30 May 2024 15:46:06 +0000

I have been thinking a lot about how we want to share responsibility when co-creating, responsibility for what, and sharing with whom, and then Cathy recommended the Heron (1992) chapter “The politics of facilitation: Balancing facilitator authority and learner autonomy”, and suddenly I have a super helpful framework to think about these things! Heron (1992) […]

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Currently Reading “Advancing Student Engagement in Higher Education: Reflection, Critique and Challenge” (Lowe, 2023)

mglessmer — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:54:16 +0000

Students can engage in higher education in different ways: behavioral, emotional, cognitive, or in any combination of those. Traditionally, this is seen as engagement with the curriculum inside the classroom, but increasingly the view of student engagement is widened to include forms where students take more ownership of their own learning, for example when becoming […]

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