Co-Creating a Podcast with Students: Working Together to Promote Wellbeing Literacy Through Digital Pedagogies in Higher Education

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the potential of podcasts in higher education. In this paper, we draw attention to a type of podcast that is understudied in the literature: what we call “co-creation podcast”, which refers to podcasts co-created by teachers and students. This paper presents and discusses a case of co-creation podcast in the context of Understanding Wellbeing, a distance learning interdisciplinary course on wellbeing at the University of Warwick, which then inspired a similar course at the University of Copenhagen. By evaluating the experiences of the co-creators, both students and teachers, as well as of the listeners, and by discussing our case in the context of the relevant literature, we have to main aims. First, we aim to explore how co-creation podcasts can have educational benefits for all the parties involved. Second, we aim to explore whether co-creating a podcast with students in the context of a distance learning interdisciplinary course on wellbeing can be an effective medium for delivering wellbeing literacy in higher education.