#creativeHE 7 -11 March 2016

with Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Sinfield, Sue Watling,

Prof. Norman Jackson and Dr Nikos Fachantidis

… for 5 days in March for the beginning of an adventure into the world of creative and playful learning and teaching in higher education and never look back! We are not alone! Connect with others from around the world. Share and grow ideas. Together! Get the bug and spread it!

Join us…

“This has been a very interesting course for me and i am glad i had the chance to participate. It gave me the opportunity to come in touch with people i would have never normally met and exchange ideas with them. I also think that a course like this gives to someone the opportunity not only to come in touch with ideas from people he/she doesn't know in real life, but also from people that he/she may meet in a real classroom, but time restrictions there don't give the opportunity to everyone to express their ideas. It also helped me become familiar with some technological tools and gave to me an example of how technology can be used in education. I think that it would be much more likely for me, now that i have participated in such a course, to try to use technology in a course that i would be teaching, than it would have been if a just had been theoretically informed about the potential to use technology that way. Participating in this course has also changed the way i see creativity and made me think more about it. The site course and google plus are also providing many interesting resources and readings. Although the problem of language has been a concern for me at the start of the course, it hasn't troubled me very much since then, because i never felt that anyone of us who is not a native English speaker was judged for his/her English. I felt that everyone was much more interested about our ideas. ”

One of many stories…

#creativeHE is facilitated by…

Chrissi Nerantzi CELT (organiser) @chrissinerantzi

Dr Nikos Fachantidis @nfachantidis

Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud

Prof. Norman Jackson @lifewider1

Sue Watling @suewatling

On successful completion of this open course, participants will be able to:

• Reflect on creative teaching for student creativity based on relevant pedagogical theories, as a driver for student engagement and learning in their own professional context.

• Discuss challenges that influence creative learning and teaching in higher education.

• Evaluate an innovation in their own practice based on their own creativity involved in the development and implementation process.

Learning outcomes

Contextualise these for your own practice and define your own!

#creativeHE in 5 days The Plan

• Previous week: orientation, familiarisation with the course, technology, peers and facilitators

• OEW Day 1: Creativity in HE

• OEW Day 2: Play and games

• OEW Day 3: Using story

• OEW Day 4: Learning through making

• OEW Day 5: Celebrating open creativity

Webinar on Day 4 7pm UK time LEGO or other model making resources required & webcam

Join our Google + community

https://plus.google.com/communities/110898703741307769041

Readings for the week ahead

1. OU report: Innovating pedagogy 2015 http://proxima.iet.open.ac.uk/public/innovating_pedagogy_2015.pdf

2. Nerantzi, C. & James, A. (eds.) (2015) Exploring Play in Higher Education, Creative Academic Magazine, Issue 2a, Issue 2b, June 2015, available at http://www.creativeacademic.uk/magazine.html

3. CELT Storytelling resources http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/teaching/storytelling.php

4. CELT LEGO in HE resources http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/teaching/lego_sp.php

The #creativeHE course site is at p2pu Sections used during Open Education Week

start with OEW

https://courses.p2pu.org/en/courses/2615/creativity-for-learning-in-higher-education/

Work towards a #creativeHE participation badge or more Check out https://courses.p2pu.org/en/courses/2615/content/7440/

Get your #creativeHE community

badge

https://credly.com/claim/63970/451-7505-446

Check if you can use this learning towards a formal qualification/course! At MMU this is enabled via FLEX

Chrissi Nerantzi Open Education Pioneer and One of the Five Finalists in the OEE Teachers’ Contest 2015 one of her recognised projects was: Catch the creativity bug and spread it - #creativeHE

#creativeHE was shortlisted… Feb 2016

http://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-2016/awards/credo-digital-award

See you there ;) Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Sinfield, Sue Watling,

Prof. Norman Jackson and Dr Nikos Fachantidis #creativeHE artwork

by Ellie Hannan