فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Creating stimulating, future-focused learning environments is essential, considering learning as the interplay between students and their environment. Developing optimal learning spaces requires a holistic, transformative approach at both theoretical and practical levels.  This study sought insights from relevant co-creators – i.e., students, academics, clinicians - to identify essential factors for designing an interactive, inter-professional space for healthcare training. This study utilised a Critical Utopian Action Research design. Purposefully selected co-creators participated in two Future Creation Workshops (FCWs) to provide keywords for utopian desires and anticipated challenges in the envisioned space during phases 1 and 2 respectively. Keywords, were subsequently thematically grouped and ranked. In phase 3, participants further contributed insights on initiating the prioritised utopian ideas. Fourteen consenting participants were equally distributed in two FCWs. The top three utopian priorities were Human resources, Educational technology, and Physical space. The top three challenges envisioned were Digital resources, Human resources, and Organisational challenges. Innovative leadership, Funding, Access, and Empowerment were proposed to guide the creation of the desired space. Incorporating diverse co-creators ensured a comprehensive grasp of needs, desires, and proposed actions for developing an interactive, inter-professional learning space. Even though the value of creating a digital learning space was evident, the impact of the current challenges within the global higher education environment, such as funding and digital access, cannot be ignored. Innovative leadership, to strategically and effectively utilise such an interactive space within the teaching and learning environment, would thus be the biggest driver of success.