Innovation through co-creation: lessons from an Australian broadcaster and teachers’ collaboration in designing engaging multiplatform education resources

Abstract

ABSTRACT Lessons from a successful broadcaster and teacher community of practice can inform new approaches to online learning co-design. Co-creation occurred with Australia’s multicultural broadcaster, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and education communities, through a co-participation model of working more directly with teachers and young people. SBS also established an online learning hub and innovative digital education resources. This article analyses the curation and co-design approach used by SBS in such a partnership to propose five principles for co-design communities of practice involving broadcasters and teachers. Media producers can learn how to co-create with educators’ to meet the growing demands of students and teachers for engaging online education resources, while also furthering their own mandates as broadcasters. This is the first major study of the production and use of Australian public broadcaster online teacher resources.