A Three-Step Guide to Equitable Makerspaces
About the course:
The Making Spaces Project took place between 2020 and 2024 (2020-2022 in the UK, 2022-2024 internationally). The aim of the original project was to support the collaboration between researchers, practitioners, and young people to share equitable practice in STEM.
A makerspace is an informal, multipurpose site designed for collaborative hands-on learning and creative production. The aim of the course was to support makerspace practitioners, organisation leaders, funders, educators, and facilitators, in developing their skills to foster more equitable makerspaces.
Our involvement:
This course was built in Futurelearn and Moodle. Our responsibility was to build the course with the provided text, as well as develop a series of videos.
As there are many makerspaces around the world, we had many people we had to organise for remote recording, as well as facilitating the recording by the UCL team. Some of the participants in recording didn’t speak english, so we also had the responsibility of creating subtitles across a range of languages.
There were a series of translated courses scoped which were built in Moodle. These were Arabic, Slovenian, and Nepali.
SKILLS USED:
Filming production, remote recording, Futurelearn, Moodle, Markdown, translation facilitation.
The course is free and available to all. If you wish to explore our work, you can do so at this link:
A Three-Step Guide to Equitable Makerspaces