Jisc Change Agents' Network Conference 2024

This presentation will cover a Students as Partners project at Edinburgh Napier University to collect student perspectives on advice they would give to other students about studying at university, and then produce student led/created teaching and learning artefacts/objects giving peer guidance around studying at university. Students were recruited as equal partners right from the start and had input throughout alongside staff members from the Library, Learning Technology, and Academic Skills teams on the entire direction of the project. Students and staff worked together on the ethical approval, data collection and analysis stages which took the form of qualitative surveys and focus groups with thematic data analysis, as well as decision making of the format the learning object outputs would take.

The findings were organised into three main themes, Study Skills, Wider Course Impacts, and External Factors, which were then divided into a further 10 sub-themes. The project team used data from the Study Skills theme to create a flashcard activity using the H5P branching tool. Data from this theme was also fed back to the wider Library, Learning Technology, and Academic Skills team for the implementation of changes and improvements. Data from the other themes was collated and shared with relevant teams across the university who would be more suited for implementing any changes in these areas.

This presentation will give a summary of the main findings of the project and the learning object outputs, challenges we experienced throughout the project, as well as covering the learning and successes of delivering this as a Students as Partners project.