Creativity for learning a 30 credit CPD unit part of the PgCert/MA in Academic Practice

with Chrissi Nerantzi @chrissinerantzi

counts also towards

BONUS: open course

for all!!!

CELT will be offering a brand new unit Creativity for Learning in the New Year 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.

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

• workshop 1 (29.1.15, 1-4pm): Unit overview, introduction to creativity in HE, enablers and barriers, theory and practice

• workshop 2 (5.2.15, 1-4pm): Creativity in action! Learning happens everywhere...

• workshop 3 (12.2.15, 1-4pm): Using story for learning and teaching

• workshop 4 (19.2.15, 1-4pm): Learning through making

• workshop 5 (5.3.15, 1-4pm): Project ideas workshop

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

... any observations?

“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

“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)

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source: http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-a-new-idea-is-first-condemned-as-ridiculous-and-then-dismissed-as-trivial-until-finally-it-william-james-345047.jpg

Does this ring a bell?

https://twitter.com/josepicardoSHS/status/527766084011962368/photo/1

What if? Let’s explore this together

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

Starts in January 2015 Join us at

https://p2pu.org/en/course

s/2615/creativity-for-learning-in-higher-

education/

Work towards open badges!

option to study at MMU towards academic credits against a fee

'Creative Academics': Exploring conceptions of personal creativity and how they change through purposeful professional development An exciting research project led by Prof. Norman Jackson and Chrissi Nerantzi linked to the Creativity for Learning Unit offered by CELT, MMU and other professional development activities in other higher education institutions. a longitudinal study starting in January 2015

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Creativity for learning a 30 credit CPD unit part of the PgCert/MA in Academic Practice

with Chrissi Nerantzi @chrissinerantzi

counts towards