#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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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