Mary-Anneliese Linke
| Title of the PhD thesis: | “Educational Co-Creation in the Digital Age” |
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| Degree programme/department: | Institute for Games |
| Supervisors: | Prof. Dr Sabiha Ghellal, Dr Marianne Mcara (Glasgow School of Art) |
| Description: | How does creativity emerge in teaching? What is needed to ensure that students feel confident enough to express it? This PhD project investigates how co-creative learning and design processes can emerge and succeed in creative STEM higher education. The focus is on digital and playful learning environments in which students do not merely consume knowledge but actively contribute to shaping the learning experience. The research examines which pedagogical, social and media-related factors create spaces where experimentation, failure and rethinking are possible, and how these factors impact agency, motivation and creativity. The aim is to develop a practice-oriented framework model for co-creative teaching in the digital age. |
| Key Words: | Participatory Design, Learner-Centred Design, Learner Agency, Design Thinking, STEM Education, Co-Creation, Playful Learning, Game Design |
| Publications: | Linke, M., & Ghellal, S. (2025). Empowering Through Posture: Power Poses in MR Exergames to Boost Self-Efficacy. In 2025 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CoG64752.2025.11114106 Ciemer, C., Linke, M., Braun, A., Ghellal, S., & Schott, N. (2025). ExerPlainable Experiences – Mapping Experiences to an Interdisciplinary Design Process of a VR Fall Prevention Exergame. In SportsHCI 2025: Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction and Sports. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3749385.3749394 Ghellal, S., & Linke, M. (2024). Games im Unterricht – Creating Games Classroom. In W. Becker & M. Metz (Hrsg.), Serious Games und Gamification in der schulischen Bildung. Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44317-7_6 |
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