Education CoDesign Workshops Report

Abstract

As part of the Reimagine Initiative of the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS), we conducted two (half-day) workshops in July and August 2019 with 40 CECS academic and professional staff to begin cross-College conversations about our education priorities in the coming years. The workshops brought together diverse views and experiences to explore both what is currently happening, as well as desires of what may happen in future in relation to the design challenge "What approaches to teaching and learning will we use in the reimagined College of Engineering and Computer Science?". The aim of the Reimagine Education CoDesign workshops were to articulate the values and approaches to education for the future of CECS and to begin to identify the structural and functional supports needed to enact these priorities. Specifically, the goal was to develop a set of common design challenges and then identify which are the highest priorities that the College can now work on. Some of these design challenges may already be in process, some may need more data and design work to address them and some may not be being addressed at all yet. These workshops provided an opportunity to uncover, discuss and prioritise these design challenges from the staff perspective. This report documents the process and outcomes of these workshops.