Building a living curriculum for STEAM: An international perspective

This paper contributes to developments in addressing the ongoing needs of engineering students in the area of human-centered and human-oriented technology innovation to promote debate on future-facing curriculum design in engineering education. We address these as part of the activities of The Hilali Network, a transnational collaboration which transcends geographic and conceptual borders to merge current reform in UK and Egyptian engineering education and local community-led digital preservation and protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). One aim of the collaboration is to identify educational methodologies and principles for remixing the design of engineering higher education alongside traditionally underexplored areas in STEAM, in this case cultural heritage. In this paper, we report on the design, implementation and evaluation of our activity which aimed at developing a STEAM-based Living Curriculum, drawing on established and the latest Higher Education and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) approaches coming from both the UK and Egypt