Find out more about the unit and how to join at http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/cpd/accredited/unit_details.php?unit_id=93

1. with Chrissi Nerantzi @chrissinerantzi
Start:
21 Jan 16

2. 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.

3. 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

4. “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

5. Connect with other creative practitioners!

6. Experience the Pedagogical Playground
Model in action (Nerantzi, 2015)
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7. Join the
#creativeHE community at
https://plus.google.com/communities/1108
98703741307769041
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!!!

8. 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.creat
iveacademic.uk/u
ploads/1/3/5/4/1
3542890/cam3.p
df
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.creative
academic.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

9. • 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!!!

10. Listen what colleague said about the unit
Access the film at https://youtu.be/sKVcqzkrCD8

11. “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

12. #creativeHE was a finalist
innovation in this Europe-wide
Teacher Contest in 2015
http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/node/174463

13. Join us!
Get the creativity bug and
use your imagination to inject
creativity, playfulness and innovation
into your practice!

14. with Chrissi Nerantzi, PL in Academic
CPD, National Teaching Fellow
@chrissinerantzi
REGISTER HERE
http://www.celt.mmu.ac.u
k/cpd/accredited/unit_det
ails.php?unit_id=93
#creativeHE artwork by Ellie Hannan