Invite to join the Creativity for Learning Unit & open #creativeHE course Jan 2016

with Chrissi Nerantzi @chrissinerantzi

Start: 21 Jan 16

CELT will be offering a brand the Creativity for Learning unit for the 3rd time in January 2016 and you are very welcome to join us.

Register and immerse yourself into ways that will help you spice up your teaching. This unit will help you develop a deeper understanding knowledge, skills and practices linked to creative and innovative learning and teaching.

Pedagogical theories in disciplinary contexts will be explored and participants will have the opportunity to develop a learning and teaching innovation to be implemented and evaluated. Creativity for learning aims to raise aspirations and transform practices. We need more creativity and innovation in our curricula and this unit provides a safe space to learn within a learning community, develop and become a creative teacher who inspires creative learning in their students.

The unit has been opened-up and you can also participate as an open learner and work towards open badges.

Creativity for Learning is an optional unit on the Postgraduate Certificate/Masters in Academic Practice. You are welcome also to participate in individual workshops as part of your CPD and/or use part of this unit as evidence for the FLEX unit (15/30 credits) or complete the assessment linked to the Creativity for Learning unit and gain 30 credits. Get in touch if you would like to discuss possibilities.

Workshops info Part 1 • workshop 1: Unit overview, introduction to portfolios and online learning

• workshop 2 : Introduction to creativity in HE, enablers and barriers, theory and practice

• workshop 3: Creativity in action! Learning happens everywhere...

• workshop 4 : Project ideas workshop 1

• workshop 5: Using story for learning and teaching

• workshop 6 : Learning through making

• workshop 7 : Project ideas workshop 2 Part 2 • Action learning sets and monthly meetings

theory and practical application, activities and development of creative practices through immersion

“Problems are things or states that someone thinks are worthy of attention or investigation. They might be visualised from two very different perspectives. The first sees a problem as an issue that needs to be resolved or rectified, the second that there is an opportunity for something different.” (Jackson, 1996, 3)

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2211912549/NORMAN2.jpg

“You would never say that someone was creative if that person never did anything. To be creative you actually have to do something. It involves putting your imagination to work to make something new, to come up with a new solution to problems, even to think of new problems or questions. You can think of creativity as applied imagination.” (Robinson, 2009, p. 67)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Sir_Ken_Robinson_at_The_Creative_Company_Conference.jpg

Reminders

Connect with other creative practitioners!

Experience the Pedagogical Playground Model in action (Nerantzi, 2015)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Playground_at_Fuji-Hakone-Izu_National_Park.jpg

Join the #creativeHE community at

https://plus.google.com/communities/1108

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Open 24 7 all year round! In collaboration with colleagues from London Metropolitan University,

University of Macedonia, University of Hull, Lifewide Education and Creative Academic.

Work towards open badges or get credits for your

work!!!

Some of the #creativeHE outputs so far

Three #creativeHE participants contributed to the Lifewide Magazine Creative Lives, Dec 2015

http://www.lifewidemagazine.co.uk/uploads/1/0/8/4/10842717/lifewide_magazine__15.pdf

http://www.creativeacademic.uk/uploads/1/3/5/4/13542890/cam3.pdf

Three #creativeHE participants became guest editors of an issue dedicated to learning in #creativeHE, Dec 2015

An issue in 2 parts around play, co-edited by Chrissi Nerantzi and Dr Alison James with contributions from colleagues on the course and others

http://www.creativeacademic.uk/uploads/1/3/5/4/13542890/cam_2a.pdf

http://www.creativeacademic.uk/uploads/1/3/5/4/13542890/cam_2b.pdf

• Innovative projects • Greenhouse contributions • Academic posters • Conference workshops • Published articles

A big thank you to Prof. Norman Jackson for making all these activities possible

• Day 1: Making a start

• Day 2: Creativity in HE

• Day 3: Play and games

• Day 4: Using story

• Day 5: Learning through making

5-Days creative CPD days planned during Open Ed Week!!!

Listen what colleague said about the unit

Access the film at https://youtu.be/sKVcqzkrCD8

“This is an innovative module that encourages participants to work innovatively (and creatively!) with rigorous attention to scholarship too. Feedback to participants is exemplary with a separate section identified for areas for further/future development. This includes feed forward guidance and also recommendations for publication/further research. This must be motivating for the participants.” Carol Maynard about the approved Creativity for Learning MMU unit

"A wonderful opportunity for creative learning, rich in playful opportunities underpinned by theory and really inspiring as a resource for making our approaches to pedagogy and practice more engaging. I think you are offering a challenging means of practising what we preach, and allowing both for innovation and risk in a really eye opening way.“ Dr Alison James, PFHEA, NTF about the open course #creativeHE

about #creativeHE

#creativeHE was a finalist innovation in this Europe-wide

Teacher Contest in 2015 http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/node/174463

Join us!

Get the creativity bug and

use your imagination to inject creativity, playfulness and innovation

into your practice!

with Chrissi Nerantzi, PL in Academic CPD, National Teaching Fellow @chrissinerantzi

REGISTER HERE http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/cpd/accredited/unit_details.php?unit_id=93

#creativeHE artwork by Ellie Hannan