We are delighted to invite you to a #creativeHE meetup with Melanie Welaratne and Kiu Sum. Melanie will share her experiences using drawing and writing simultaneously to develop ideas. Melanie completed her BA in Fine Art and her MA in Education and will discuss how this method has combined her skills and passions and opened…
Creative AI and the Data Reflective Wall – #creativeHE meetup reflection
The March 2024 #creativeHE session was led by Fuat Ramazanov from the Ascenda School of Management in Vancouver and Anne-Marie Morin from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Fuat shared insights into the relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence (AI), leading us through a range of student activities focused on using AI as a means of enhancing…
#creativeHE meetup 2023/24: 13 Mar 24, Empowering Creativity: Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Creative Process & The Data Reflective Wall
We are delighted to invite you to a #creativeHE meetup with Anne Marie Morrin and Fuat Ramazanov. Anne Marie’s session will present an original methodology called ‘The Data Reflective Wall’ which was devised for a unique learning experience to promote understanding of children’s learning process as well as individual and collective understanding of social injustices….
And breathe…Reflection on the Feb #creativeHE meetup
For February’s #creativeHE meetup we hosted sessions from Jennifer Park and Beatriz Acevedo. Escape Rooms in MS Office Jennifer walked us through her process for designing online escape rooms as engaging and interactive classroom activities using MS Word, PowerPoint and MS Forms. Jennifer shared useful practical tips and even created a sample escape room for…
#creativeHE meetup 2023/24: Creative escape rooms using MS Office & Creative Superpowers, 14 Feb 24
We are delighted to invite you to a #creativeHE meetup with Jennifer Park and Beatriz Acevedo. Jennifer’s session explores the creative way to design an online escape room as a classroom activity, using MS Office, to increase students’ engagement in HE. Participants learn how to use MS Word, PowerPoint, and MS Forms to design interactive…
Inclusive approaches and multidisciplinary play – reflection and slides from the January #creativeHE meetup
The first #creativeHE session of 2024 was led by Ana Souto from Nottingham Trent University and Roger Saunders from De Montfort University. Ana shared a range of creative and inclusive practices relating to her work in the School of Architecture, including conceptual mapping and drawing, encouraging us to reflect on our relationships to different spaces….
#creativeHE meetup 2023/24: Inclusive approaches and multidisciplinary play, 17 Jan 24
We are delighted to invite you to a #creativeHE meetup with Ana Souto and Roger Saunders. Ana will explore the potential of creative practices to engage with Inclusive Teaching practices, especially around Decolonising the Curriculum and using live projects as Authentic Assessments in design courses. This participatory session will start with a brief discussion on…
#creativeHE meetup 2023/24: Festive Makealong, 6 Dec 23
We are delighted to invite you to a #creativeHE meetup with Charlotte Stevens and Simon Abbott. The festive makealong this year will explore two different approaches to collage: individual and collaborative, paper and digital, both with a festive theme. What to bring: A postcard-sized piece of cardboard, an old magazine you don’t mind cutting up,…
#creativeHE meetup 2023/24: Digital creativity applied to learning and teaching, 15 Nov 23
We are delighted to invite you to a #creativeHE meetup with Stephen Taylor. This will be an opportunity to look at using Adobe Express to encourage creative assignments and resource generation. Express, formerly Spark, is Adobe’s web based app for content creation and it comes with many features that make your life easier and help…
#creativeHE: Design Thinking and Curriculum Development
Mixed media pebble art by Chrissi, diverse individuals connected We would like to invite you to an open online event linked to the recent special issue around People centred design kindly supported and published by the International Journal of Management and Applied Research to showcase the creative thinking of our contributors with the wider community….
Mix it up! Reflections on the #creativeHE festive makealong 2023
Simon Abbott and Charlotte Stevens, 23/24 #creativeHE leads This year the festive makealong which was devoted to collage. First some facts and thoughts about collage: The work ‘collage’ is derived from the French verb ‘coller’ to paste, stick or glue. There are different types of collage: paper, digital, mixed media, photomontage Collage can…
Open call: Share your creative assessment ideas/practice and connect with others
Dear colleagues and friends, We are opening up new opportunities for the wider community to share examples of creative practice. This academic year, our main focus will be on creative assessment ideas/practices and contributions will be shared here on the #creativeHE website. The idea comes directly from members of the creativeHE community in association with…