Micro-sprints: How an agile approach to co-creation adapted to global disruption
Conference presentation at St Mary’s Festival of Learning and Teaching
On 23rd June 2020, we presented “Micro-sprints: how an agile approach to co-creation adapted to global disruption” at St Mary’s Festival of Learning and Teaching.
This presentation demonstrates how a team of undergraduate psychology students worked with academics and support staff on an Office for Students funded project to develop a short online course aimed at developing student self-efficacy for digital skills. Using an agile approach to team working through a series of ‘micro-sprints’, the team applied a suite of online tools to enhance collaboration and productivity, and promote reflective discussion and iterative feedback. The approach builds on evaluation and feedback from a previous curriculum design partnership project, where the micro-sprint model was first applied to enhance the process of partnerships.
The presentation discusses how the team adapted to the coronavirus restrictions through a switch to online working, with the team now located in various countries across the world. The micro-sprint process also adapted to the new situation, shifting the focus to more asynchronous activity while maintaining its core principles of transparency, dialogue, reflection, iteration and improvement, enabling the team to continue focussing on the project outcomes.
The presentation concludes with student reflections on how the approach and technology impacted engagement with the process and whether it increased their understanding of pedagogical concepts, and how the approach is being adopted more broadly across the University.
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Presenters
John Owen, Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning
Cath Wasiuk, Learning Technologist
Zhantai Chen, BSc Psychology
Simone Maleker, BSc Cognitive Neuroscience
Amanda Conway, Careers Consultant
