1) #creativeHE is a 5-day open online course from 7-11 March 2016 about creative learning and teaching in higher education facilitated by Chrissi Nerantzi and others. 2) The course aims to help participants reflect on using creativity to engage students and discuss challenges to creative teaching, and evaluate innovations in their own practice. 3) The plan is for participants to familiarize themselves with the topic and each other before taking part in daily sessions on creativity, play/games, storytelling, making, and celebrating open creativity.

1. #creativeHE
7 -11 March 2016
with Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Sinfield, Sue Watling,
Prof. Norman Jackson and Dr Nikos Fachantidis

2. … 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…

3. “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…

4. #creativeHE is facilitated by…
Chrissi Nerantzi
CELT (organiser)
@chrissinerantzi
Dr Nikos
Fachantidis
@nfachantidis
Sandra Sinfield
@danceswithcloud
Prof. Norman
Jackson
@lifewider1
Sue Watling
@suewatling

5. 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!

6. #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

7. Join our Google + community
https://plus.google.com/communities/110898703741307769041

8. 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

9. 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/

10. 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/639
70/451-7505-446
Check if you can use this learning towards a formal
qualification/course! At MMU this is enabled via FLEX

11. 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

12. #creativeHE was shortlisted… Feb 2016
http://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-2016/awards/credo-digital-award

13. See you there ;)
Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Sinfield, Sue Watling,
Prof. Norman Jackson and Dr Nikos Fachantidis
#creativeHE artwork
by Ellie Hannan