Share Paper: A Hands-on On-line Course on Co-design for Digital Theology

  1. Tomi Suovuo, University of Turku, Department of Computing, Finland
  2. Jonas Kurlberg, Spurgeon’s College, Centre for Digital Theology, United Kingdom
  3. Erkki Sutinen, University of Turku, Department of Computing, Finland
Tuesday, November 9 2:20-2:40 PM Room 2

Abstract: Digital theology is a new multidisciplinary field of study. An on-line co-design project course was organised in order to teach the field to a multicultural and multidisciplinary group of students. This was an experimental online project based learning course, combined with cultural variety, co-design, design science research, Scrum, Discord, Trello, GitHub and WordPress. The experiment tested the students, the teachers, the technologies, as well as the methodologies. The course succeeded with all the diverse elements working well together. The biggest issues were the quality of audio/video communication, Discord notifications, and the depth of teaching on digital theology.