#creativehe review of the course sep - nov 2015
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#creativeHE 28 Sep – 20 Nov 2015
with Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Sinfield, Sue Watling,
Prof. Norman Jackson and Dr Nikos Fachantidis
#creativeHE facilitators
Chrissi Nerantzi CELT (organiser) @chrissinerantzi
Dr Nikos Fachantidis @nfachantidis
Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud
Prof. Norman Jackson @lifewider1
Sue Watling @suewatling
Joined the
team in week 3
On successful completion of this open course, students 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
#creativeHE in 8 weeks
• Week 1: orientation, familiarisation with the course, platforms, peers, facilitators + webinar
• Week 2: Creativity in HE
• Week 3: Open week to catch-up + webinar
• Week 4: Play and games
• Week 5: Using story
• Week 6: Learning through making
• Week 7: Innovation project
• Week 8: Open week to catch-up, complete + webinar
• BONUS: Learning ecologies, throughout and after Week 8
Learning with others
•Find a study buddy (How did this happen?) • Join a small facilitated group > check
out https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zKyfcslt7VWwOZja-GWz25VHTz9PvsXT78-XxO63qJY/edit?usp=sharing •Create your own study group (Did
this happen, locally perhaps?)
Norman’s example
Course site within p2pu
https://courses.p2pu.org/en/courses/2615/creativity-for-learning-in-higher-education/
Collaboration space in Google + community
https://plus.google.com/communities/110898703741307769041
Before the start of the course
Collaboration space in Google + community
https://plus.google.com/communities/110898703741307769041
A few days after course completion
#creativeHE was useful for… • Engaging in creative approaches to learning and teaching
and considering these for own practice • Engaging in informal CPD within a diverse and distributed
community with individuals from other institutions and countries
• Exploring the possibility to link to formal CPD in an institution (MMU example: FLEX, Creativity module)
• Learning and developing through using a portfolio-based approach within an distributed community of practitioners
• Learning within a small facilitated group where applicable • Co-facilitating with colleagues from other institutions and
countries and exploring new possibilities together for joint-up learning and development
2 more webinars, Tuesdays 8-9pm UK time
• https://mmu.adobeconnect.com/_a1023480576/creativehe/
•There is also an Adobe app •13 October peer-led •17 November celebrating learning
Opportunity to become research participants
• Chrissi’s PhD research in open collaborative learning in cross-institutional academic development courses
• Ethical approval from Edinburgh Napier University (details will be communitated to colleagues interested)
• express interest at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ln63DGvXDF2yVG4Jg1LGSmVQz61uMkJkdt1hEAaXsfs/viewform
Week 1 familiarisation
Webinar 1
Visual discussions
Video
Week 2 creativity in HE
http://suewatling.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2015/10/09/i-may-be-less-creative-than-i-think-creativehe
blogging
http://bnicollscreativity4learninginhe.blogspot.co.uk/
http://padlet.com/nikosmouratog/8rs14d88w3g6
Week 3 catch-up
Facilitator sharing own views
Sharing interesting resources
http://blog.mahabali.me/blog/pedagogy/considering-teaching-with-sole-approach/
http://www.normanjackson.co.uk/creativityopencourse
Participant becoming facilitator
Creative mood board
https://www.pinterest.com/debbaff/debs-creative-mood-board/
http://padlet.com/tziouvar/w4efxjia13dr
Portfolios, loads of them!
2nd webinar
Week 4 play and games
Linking the physical with the digital
Week 4 play and games
Norman’s openly shared reflections http://www.normanjackson.co.uk/creativityopencourse
Norman is exploring the strength of connections
Nikos playing the Sell your bargains game his way
https://youtu.be/BmGdm-Tfz2M
Week 5 using story
Our Sue is changing institutions
Celebrating together
The activities seem to trigger engagement and sharing
Week 6 Learning through making
https://youtu.be/kpcW0zWWaOU
Great use of video to develop reflection
http://padlet.com/tziouvar/w4efxjia13dr/wish/79706787
Sharing personal creations
#creativeHE participation badges Have you claimed yours? Check out https://courses.p2pu.org/en/courses/2615/content/7440/
Week 7
Catching up!!
Reflecting
Co-authoring opportunity
Week 8
Webinar
Learning a new language
Catching up
Using visual creativity
“Week 8 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. ”
#creativeHE numbers within the community
members Facilitators
Day 1 41 4
End of week 1 64 4
End of week 2 76 4
End of week 3 94 5
End of week 4 99 5
End of week 5 102 5
End of week 6 102 5
End of week 7 102 5
End of week 8 102 5 Group 1 Group 2
9 8
Facilitated groups
Sue Watling after joining the
course as a participant
asked to become a facilitator
UK
Greece
Canada
Australia
France
Jordan
Egypt
USA
Switzerland
Iraq
United Arab Emirates
Sudan
30% of participants for whom there were publicly available information were from the following 12 countries
#creativeHE stats provided by Roger Greenhalgh
Total interactions: 2257 by 42% of participants Average posting per participant:: 52.4 interactions >>> per week 6.5 interactions
#creativeHE community postings provided by Roger Greenhalgh
Popular engagement days: Wednesdays, Thursday, Fridays, Sundays NOT popular: Saturdays, Mondays, Tuesdays
#creativeHE posts per day
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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Patchwork approach (Wenger, et al. 2009) used in #creativeHE
Course site Portfolio
Community space
Unknown? Other spaces, networks,
communities online, offline
etc. (Twitter, Webinars)
What next?
The community will stay open
Special Interest Groups:
Learning ecologies with Prof. Norman Jackson
Creative robotics with Dr Nikos Fachantidis
Digital creativity with Sue Watling
Creative assessment with Sandra Sinfield
PLUS: Model making webinar TBC in collaboration with Dr Alison James and @LEGOinHE network
Related research
This iteration of #creativeHE has been used as a PhD case study to explore the lived experience of learners in this open course.
Findings will be communicated via the thesis and related publications and conference presentations.
Thank you to all study participants.
Chrissi Nerantzi @chrissinerantzi
https://chrissinerantzi.wordpress.com/phd-research/
• Day 1: Making a start
• Day 2: Creativity in HE
• Day 3: Play and games
• Day 4: Using story
• Day 5: Learning through making
We will be looking for volunteer facilitators
What facilitators said
Extending engagement
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
Creative Academic Magazine created by #creativeHE participants (Jan 2016) supported by Prof. Norman Jackson and Dr Jenny Willis 100
pages
http://www.creativeacademic.uk/uploads/1/3/5/4/13542890/cam3.pdf
Introducing the #creativeHE community badge > Jan 2016
https://credly.com/claim/63970/451-7505-446
Thank you so much everybody! We will be back in March 2016. Same place.
Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Sinfield, Sue Watling, Norman Jackson and Nikos Fachantidis
#creativeHE artwork by Ellie Hannan @ellihannan